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Then there come a slack spell that lasted for a couple of weeks , and we did n't get hardly any mail at all , except from some crank out in Illinois that had splurged on a whole ten dollars ' worth of shares , and wrote in about every other day wantin ' to know when the dividends was goin ' to begin comin ' his way . I heard Miss Allen talkin ' it over with Sweetie . It was along about then that this duck from the post-office buildin ' showed up . He comes gumshoein ' around one noon hour , while I was all by my lonesome , and he asks a whole lot of questions that I 'd forgot the answer to . I was tellin ' the boss about him that night around closin ' up time . `` I sized him up for one of them cheap skates from the Marshal 's office , '' says I. `` I did n't know what his game was and I wa 'n' t goin ' to give up all I knew to him ; so I tells him to call around to-morrow and you 'll load him up with all the information his nut can hold . Was that right ? ''