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Don't you get to liking him too much," he said. "That bird's the class. He ain't
for any little--"
"
Cut it!" exclaimed the girl. "I'm as good as you are and a damn straighter. What
I get I earn, and I don't steal it."
The Lizard grinned. "I guess you're right at that; but don't try to pull him down
any lower than he is. He is coming up again some day to where he belongs."
"I ain't going to try to pull him down," said the girl. "And anyhow, when were you
made his godfather?"
Jimmy saw Eva almost daily for many weeks. He saw her at her post-meridian
breakfast--sober and subdued; he saw her later in the evening, in various stages
of exhilaration, but at those times she did not come to his table and seldom if
ever did he catch her eye.
They talked a great deal while she breakfasted, and he learned to like the girl and
to realize that she possessed two personalities. The one which he liked dominated
her at breakfast; the other which he loathed guided her actions later in the
evening. Neither of them ever referred to those hours of her life, and as the days
passed Jimmy found himself looking forward to the hour when Little Eva would
come to Feinheimer's for her breakfast.
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