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"boss" grew restive under doe that, if

he should once break with the master mind, he would soon make some fatal

mistake and another would beco Barry was for long temperate and orderly, it was because Murdock

iance breeds discontent and finally

revolt, and that by big rake-offs, on the quiet, enough could be gained

to satisfy the a was done with decency, the reform-talk of the Municipal

Clubites would prove no more useful nor orna!" as Murdock sagely put it "Let the other fellow

have the sry, he

won't squeal"

With equal sternness he repressed Billy's fancy for fast horses and Mrs

Billy's taste for green velvet and diahteen hundred," he said "Just you

be contented with having things your oithout talking about it

Throw all the dust you like, but don't let it be gold dust"

"You cut a pretty wide swath yourself," Billy growled

"I ain't a alderrinned the other "A contractor's got a right to make money"