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“Do I get a meal?”

“Prime sirloin and ribs o’ beef, roast turkey poulet, quarters of las If you help me How do you know?”

“I just know”

“You better knowon bread and water”

“I’ you that it takes one to know one I s, he was covered in coal dust Like a stoker Well, do they send a stoker to retrieve a rich man’s shiny clean steamer trunk? Of course they don’t They send a shiny clean bedroo?”

“And for another thing?”

“The stewards usually come in pairs, help each other carry He was alone”

“What did he look like?”

“Like I just told you Like a stoker Hard as nails tough fro”

“Big man?”

“Not so big Powerful build, though Long ar coal”

“Long arms? Did you see his face?”

“Black with soot”

“Would you recognize hiain?”

“I doubt it”