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What are you going to do now?" asked the Lizard.
Go out and hunt for another job," said Jimmy.
Well, I wish you luck," said the Lizard.
Maybe I can find something for you. I'll try, and in the mean time if you need
any mazuma I always got a little roll tucked away in my sock."
"Thanks," said Jimmy, "and I don't mind telling you that you're the one man I
know whom I'd just as soon borrow from and would like the opportunity of
loaning to. You say that you can't understand me, and yet you're a whole lot more
of an enigma yourself! You admit, in fact, you're inclined to boast, that you're a
pickpocket and a safe-blower and yet I'd trust you, Lizard, with anything that I
had."
The Lizard smiled, and for the first time since he had known him Jimmy noticed
that his eyes smiled with his lips.
"I've always had the reputation," said the Lizard, "of being a white guy with my
friends. As a matter of fact, I ain't no different from what you'd probably be if you
were in business and what most of your friends are. Morally they're a bunch of
thieves and crooks. Of course, they don't go out and frisk any one and they don't
work with a jimmy or a bottle of soup. They work their graft with the help of
contracts and lawyers, and they'd gyp a friend or a pauper almost as soon as they
would an enemy. I don't know much about morality, but when it comes right
down to a question of morals I believe my trade is just as decent as that of a lot of
these birds you see rolling up and down Mich Boul in their limousines."
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