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"What's the matter with King Tom of late? " would ask someone when, all the cards in a heap on the table, the traders lying back in their chairs took a spell from a hard gamble.
"Tom has learned to hold his tongue, he must be up to some dam' good thing," opined another; while a man with hooked features and of German extraction who was supposed to be agent for a Dutch crockery house -- the famous "Sphinx" mark -- broke in resentfully: