"Quad's odds"; . 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 h

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"Quad's odds"; . 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 who stole Sam Burtons are things in your family record which a strangerhas no business with, particularly an honest stranger. Ifyou want the four hundred and sixty-three other Quadswho lived before you, I shall be happy to go on with thenames and leading;

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