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"What's his graft?" asked the girl.
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He ain't got none except being on the square. It's funny," the Lizard
philosophized, "but here's me with a bank roll that would choke a horse, and you
probably with a stocking full of dough, and I'll bet all the money I ever had or ever
expect to have if one of us could change places with that poor simp we'd do it."
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He is a square guy, isn't he?" said the girl. "You can almost tell it by looking at
him. How did you come to know him?"
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Oh, that's a long story," said the Lizard. "We room at the same place, but I knew
him before that."
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On Indiana near Eighteenth?" asked the girl.
How the hell did you know?" he queried.
I know a lot of things I ain't supposed to know," replied she.
You're a wise guy, all right, Eva, and one thing I like about you is that you don't
let anything you know hurt you."
And then, after a pause: "I like him," she said. "What's his name?"
The Lizard eyed her for a moment.
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