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272 Strictly Business
take you, too, if you don't look out! How do you know
this ain't the man I want ? What are you doing in here
with him ?"
"How do I know ?" said the girl, flaming red and white
by turns. "Because I've known him a year. He's mine.
Oughtn't I to know ? And what am I doin' here with him ?
That's easy."
She stooped low and reached down somewhere into a
swirl of flirted draperies, heliotrope and black. An elastic
snapped, she threw on the table toward Cork a folded wad
of bills. The money slowly straightened itself with little
leisurely jerks.
"Take that, Jimmy, and let's go," said the girl. " I'm
declarin' the usual dividends, Maguire," she said to the
officer. "You had your usual five-dollar graft at the usual
corner at ten."
"A lie!" said the cop, turning purple. "You go on my
beat again and I'll arrest you every time I see you."
"No, you won't," said the girl. "And I'll tell you why.
Witnesses saw me give you the money to-night, and last
week, too. I've been getting fixed for you."
Cork put the wad of money carefully into his pocket,
and said: "Come on, Fanny; let's have some chop suey
before we go home."
"Clear out, quick, both of you, or I'll --"
The cop's bluster trailed away into inconsequentiality.
At the corner of the street the two halted. Cork handedI
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