The Inflammatory Process of a Strange Man

The author recalls an incident when he was a young man. A large handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize him. The strange man stirred his rum and water, pointedly at me,. And he tasted it, not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file. He did this so that nobody but i saw the file. When he had done it, he wiped the file and put it in a breast pocket. I knew it to be joe's file, and i knew that he knew my convict. If i had been in humour for talking, the talk must have been all on my side.

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