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I handed to him the memorandum from Collins and left , saying : `` This is Wednesday . Think it over for a week and I 'll arrange to see you next Wednesday . Then I shall expect to hear , if you are not convinced , that the sharks swallowed you like a porgy . '' When I got away from Mr. Tescheron that afternoon , it was after three o'clock , and I had to see Flanagan . Luckily I found the coroner at his office and was received by him with that warmth of greeting and cordiality which springs from a political genius , said to be derived by contact with the Blarney Stone . At any rate , it makes its successful appeal to human nature and constitutes the capital of Tammany leaders holding their own against all reformers who fail to take into account the hearts of the poor . There was n't anything in the world he would n't do for me .