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it up that I would not pay him, and then he should not get anything. The other told him take out ten dollars from the wallet and give it up. He took out a lot of bills and fumbled them over, but could not seem to find what he wanted. The other said to me sir take ten dollars out of your other wallet and give him, and take the wallet. I said no. He said then lend him ten dollars, and he would take the wallet and divide the contents with me, and pay me the ten dollars as soon as he would go down to his house and get it. I said No the wallet is not mine, this was the death blow to the the game. I told him he ought to go and advertise it. The other one gave him a kick in the back side and told him to go and advertise it. I took this to be a scheme well understood for them to rob me. If I had claimed the wallet that was just what they wanted; but as I would not claim anything that did not belong to me, they could not make their scheme work well. This is the interpretation of the strange [impu.. cut off] I felt while standing in the City Hall. In the evening went to the barbers and got shaved and seeing that I looked rather