"Quad's odds"; . 32 FOURTH AND acquainted with the chief of police, deputy Roman marshal,the constables of the Tenth Ward, and started the first sweat hoard ever seen in the town. He didnt live towitness the decay of the Roman Empire, owing to a littleaffair in the jail court-yard. I dontrecollect the name of the sheriff whoofficiated, or what the dying confes-sion of your relative was, but Iknow that the papers said it was aclear case that he croked JimSwan for his sugar. Of course,you are there and I am here, and itwouldnt look well for a stranger toadvise; but still, if you shouldnt


"Quad's odds"; . 32 FOURTH AND acquainted with the chief of police, deputy Roman marshal,the constables of the Tenth Ward, and started the first sweat hoard ever seen in the town. He didnt live towitness the decay of the Roman Empire, owing to a littleaffair in the jail court-yard. I dontrecollect the name of the sheriff whoofficiated, or what the dying confes-sion of your relative was, but Iknow that the papers said it was aclear case that he croked JimSwan for his sugar. Of course,you are there and I am here, and itwouldnt look well for a stranger toadvise; but still, if you shouldntsay anything about Horatio, it wouldperhaps be just as well. Python Quad—Lived in the days of Faro and Keno, andwas a very able man. If he was alive to-day, and livingin New York, the detectives wouldfeel in duty bound to follow himaround town, to see that he didntget lost. I dont know how manybanks he * cracked, or what he didwith the plate stolen from thosethirteen churches, or how the vigi-lance committee knew him to be theman wh


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