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48 Strictly Business
"Nothing larger than sea turtles," said Corrigan, reflect-
ing, "and there was wood alcohol in that."
Danny wandered. The double, heavy incumbency of en-
joying simultaneously a Sunday and a festival day was his.
The sorrows of the hand-toiler fit him easily. They
are worn so often that they hang with the picturesque
lines of the best tailor-made garments. That is why well-
fed artists of pencil and pen find in the griefs of the common
people their most striking models. But when the Phil-
istine would disport himself, the grimness of Melpomene,
herself, attends upon his capers. Therefore, Danny set
his jaw hard at Easter, and took his pleasure sadly.
The family entrance of Dugan's caf6 was feasible; so
Danny yielded to the vernal season as far as a glass of bock.
Seated in a dark, linoleumed, humid back room, his heart
and mind still groped after the mysterious meaning of the
springtime jubilee.
"Say, Tim," he said to the waiter, "why do they have
Easter ?"
"Skiddoo!" said Tim, closing a sophisticated eye. "Is
that a new one? All right. Tony Pastor's for you last
night, I guess. I give it up. What's the answer - two
apples or a yard and a half ? "
From Dugan's Danny turned back eastward. The
April sun seemed to stir in him a vague feeling that he
could not construe. He made a wrong diagnosis and
decided that it was Katy Conlon.~i~h~de~t~a~ 1 4 -11
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Henry, O., 1862-1910. Strictly Business, book, 1910; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139374/m1/60/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.