“Well, no,” says Silver; “you needn’t back Epidermis to win to-day. I’ve
only been here a month. But I’m ready to begin; and the members of
Willie Manhattan’s Sunday School class, each of whom has volunteered to
contribute a portion of cuticle toward this rehabilitation, may as well
send their photos to the @Evening Daily@. “I’ve been studying the
town,” says Silver, “and reading the papers every day, and I know it as
well as the cat in the City Hall knows an O’Sullivan. People here lie
down on the floor and scream and kick when you are the least bit slow
about taking money from them. Come up in my room and I’ll tell you.
We’ll work the town together, Billy, for the sake of old times.”
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