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`` Betcher life , '' he said , and then : `` If I get the news will I bring it here ? '' Mr. Lichtenstein considered for a minute . Then shook his head . `` I 'll be in Blicker 's drug-store between ` leven and midnight , '' he said . `` If I do n't show up it 'll be because I ca n't . '' Mr. Lichtenstein smiled encouragingly . `` Do n't look on the dark side of the future , '' he said , `` but do n't take any chances , and do n't show a light till you have to . ''