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Pleasure Before Business--Result of That Method--On Financial Rocks--James, Otherwise "Jimmy," Irving--He Was a Model Chief of Detectives--Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street, in the Early Seventies--He Takes Me for a Drive out Harlem Lane--A Trio of Detectives--They Make a Startling Proposition--A $10,000 Temptation--Mental Conflicts--I Dare Not Be Poor--C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute. 28

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