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CHAPTER XIII - HARRIET PHILOSOPHIZES.
When Jimmy got home that night he saw a light in the Lizard's room and entered.
"
Well," said the cracksman, "how's every little thing?"
Jimmy smiled ruefully.
"Canned again," he announced, and then he told the Lizard the story of his
downfall, attributing the results of the third round, however, to Brophy's
unwarranted action at the end of the second.
"
Well," said the Lizard, "you certainly are the champion boob. There you had a
chance to cop off a nice bunch of coin on that fight and instead you kill it for
yourself and everybody else."
"You don't think," said Jimmy, "that I would have put any money on that crooked
scrap."
"
Why not?" asked the Lizard, and then he shook his head sadly. "No, I don't
suppose you would. There's lots of things about you that I can't understand, and
one of them is the fact that you would rather starve to death than take a little
easy money off of birds that have got more than they got any business to have.
Why, with your education and front we two could pull off some of the classiest
stuff that this burg ever saw."
"Forget it," admonished Jimmy.
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