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`` Just let me get ready to leave town , and fellows I never heard of turn up with bills . I could stand off the little fellows , but Meyers is making no end of a stew . He holds a note of mine for five hundred and sixty dollars . It was due yesterday , and he swore that if I did n't smoke up by noon to-day , he 'd come to the governor . '' `` Wo n't he give you an extension ? '' `` He 's given me two already . It 's the money I lost last spring at the races .