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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: on hand look any prettier to that bank examiner. Now, I can't show
him those notes, for they're just plain notes of hand without any
security in sight, but you know very well that Pink Ross and Jim
Fisher are two of the finest white men God ever made, and they'll
do the square thing. You remember Jim Fisher--he was the one who
shot that faro dealer in El Paso. I wired Sam Bradshaw's bank to
send me $20,000, and it will get in on the narrow-gauge at 10.35.
You can't let a bank examiner in to count $2,200 and close your
doors. Tom, you hold that examiner. Hold him. Hold him if you have
to rope him and sit on his head. Watch our front window after the
narrow-gauge gets in, and when we've got the cash inside we'll
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