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"I'd do anything," said Jimmy, "that I could do and still look a policeman in the
face."
"All right," said the Lizard. "When I come back I'll bring you a job of some sort. I
may be back to-night, and I may not be back again for a month, and in the mean
time you got to live."
He drew a roll of bills from his pocket and commenced to count out several.
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Hold on!" cried Jimmy. "Once again, nothing doing."
"Forget it," admonished the Lizard. "I'm just payin' back the twenty you loaned
me."
"But I didn't loan it to you," said Jimmy; "I gave it to you as a reward for finding
my watch."
The Lizard laughed and shoved the money across the table.
"Take it," he said; "don't be a damn fool. And now so-long! I may bring you home
a job to-night, but if I don't you've got enough to live on for a couple of weeks."
After the Lizard had gone Jimmy sat looking at the twenty dollars for a long time.
"That fellow may be a thief," he soliloquized, "but whatever he is he's white. Just
imagine, the only friend I've got in Chicago is a safe-blower."
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