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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: publication.'
"'Then I'll have to trouble you for a few scad until--'
"He looked at me and smiled. 'Better cough up, eh?'
"'Sure,' I said. 'Nobody to identify me, so make it cash.'
"And cash it was made, thirty PLUNKS (a plunk is a dollar, my dear Anak), and
I pulled my freight . . . eh?--oh, departed.
"'Pale youth,' I said to Cerberus, 'I am bounced.' (He grinned with pallid
joy.) 'And in token of the sincere esteem I bear you, receive this little--'
(His eyes flushed and he threw up one hand, swiftly, to guard his head from
the expected blow)--'this little memento.'
"I had intended to slip a fiver into his hand, but for all his surprise, he
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