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"Ten cents! " Admeh Drake muttered to himself, as he felt the first shock of the cool breeze on Kearney Street, "what in Jericho can a man do with a dime, anyway? It won't even buy a decent bed; it won't pay the price of a drink at the Hoffman Bar. Coffee John is full of prunes!"
He walked up the cheap side of the street, looking aimlessly at the shop windows. "I figure it out about this way," he thought, "I ain't going to earn a million with two nickels; if I make a raise, it'll be just by durn luck. So it don't matter how I begin, nor what I do at all. I just got to go it blind, and trust to striking a trail that'll lead to water. I'll take up with the first idea I get, and ride for it as far as it goes."