While Morris perused the item Abe gradually recovered his composure, and when his partner at last put down the paper Abe was able to smile the slow, ghostly smile of a man who has called four deuces with an ace full.
"Well, Mawruss," he said resignedly, "a feller must expect the worst when he's got an optician for a partner."
Transcriber's Note:
Punctuation has been regularized, except for inconsistent hyphenation, which has been retained as in the original.
The following typographic errors have been corrected:
- Page 109 "woud" changed to "would"
- Page 223 "cired" changed to "cried"
- Page 234 "it it" changed to "it is"
- Page 352 "successs" changed to "success"
The following were each used once and were not changed:
- jimminy/jiminy
- defence/defense