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p50 Strictly Business
Bdl Line army. Nearly four weeks of straight whisky
and a diet limited to crackers, bologna, and pickles often
guarantees a psycho-zoological sequel. Thus desperate,
freezing, angry, beset by phantoms as he was, he felt the
need of human sympathy and intercourse.
The Bed liner standing at his right was a young man of
about his own age, shabby but neat.
"What's the diagnosis of your case, Freddy ?" asked
Thllolmas, with the freemasonic familiarity of the damned
"Booze? That's mine. You don't look like a pan-
handler. Neither am I. A month ago I was pushing
the lines over the backs of the finest team of Perchlieron
bufidoes that ever made their mile down Fifth Avenue
in g2.85. And look at me now! Say; how do you come
to be at this bed bargain-counter rummage sale ?"
The other voung man seemed to welcome the advances
of the airy ex-coachmnan.
"No, said lihe, "mine isn't exactly a case of drink.
Unless we allow that Cupid is a bartender. I married
unwisely, according to the opinion of my unforgiving
* relatives. I've been out of work for a year because I
don't know how to work; and I've been sick in Bellevue
:and other hospitals four months. My wife and kid had
to go back to her mother. I was turned out of the
hospital yesterday. And I haven't a cent. That's my
tale of woe."
"Tough luck," said Thomas. "A man alone can pullI-91- 9 c -
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