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PEGGY FURNISS
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was correct but too slow on the draw to express a personal opinion like thet. Healy warn't over-popular but he got the thing fixed up. As I said, he grubstaked me once and, when he said that I'd best not mention havin' known him at all, I took it as a natcheral feelin' an' kept shet till you put it to me p'int blank."

"Oh 'e's a crook hall right, hall right," said Lefty. "And," he added with a yawn, "I'm tellin' you this right now. If 'e gits hany answers to these tellygrams I'm goin' to see what they 'as to's'y if I 'ave to knock 'im down to git it hout of 'im."