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CHAPTER II
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It was not long afterward1 that Daylight came on to New York. A letter from John Dowsett had been the cause—a simple little typewritten letter of several lines. But Daylight had thrilled as he read it. He remembered the thrill that was his, a callow youth of fifteen, when, in Tempas Butte, through lack of a fourth man, Tom Galsworthy, the gambler, had said, "Get in, Kid; take a hand." That thrill was his now. The bald, typewritten sentences seemed gorged3 with mystery. "Our Mr. Howison will call upon you at your hotel. He is to be trusted. We must not be seen together. You will understand after we have had our talk." Daylight conned4 the words over and over. That was it. The big game had arrived, and it looked as if he were being invited to sit in and take a hand. Surely, for no other reason would one man so peremptorily5 invite another man to make a journey across the continent.
They met—thanks to "our" Mr. Howison,—up the Hudson, in a magnificent country home. Daylight, according to instructions, arrived in a private motor-car which had been furnished him. Whose car it was he did not know any more than did he know the owner of the house, with its generous, rolling, tree-studded lawns. Dowsett was already there, and another man whom Daylight recognized before the introduction was begun. It was Nathaniel Letton, and none other. Daylight had seen his face a score of times in the magazines and newspapers, and read about his standing6 in the financial world and about his endowed University of Daratona. He, likewise, struck Daylight as a man of power, though he was puzzled in that he could find no likeness7 to Dowsett. Except in the matter of cleanness,—a cleanness that seemed to go down to the deepest fibers8 of him,—Nathaniel Letton was unlike the other in every particular. Thin to emaciation
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earnings
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dividends
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红利( dividend的名词复数 ); 股息; 被除数; (足球彩票的)彩金 | |
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deference
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shears
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eerie
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adj.怪诞的;奇异的;可怕的;胆怯的 | |
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stereotyped
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variant
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clog
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gambling
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shuffled
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poker
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