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The Octopus Marooned
"A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters. "That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a polic…
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Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking rice in Charleston, S.C. Best of all I li…
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Modern Rural Sports
Jeff Peters must be reminded. Whenever he is called upon, pointedly, for a story, he will maintain that his life has been as devoid of inci…
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The Chair of Philanthromathematics
"I see that the cause of Education has received the princely gift of more than fifty millions of dollars," said I. I was gleaning the stray…
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The Hand That Riles the World
"Many of our great men," said I (apropos of many things), "have declared that they owe their success to the aid and encouragement of some b…
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The Exact Science of Matrimony
"As I have told you before," said Jeff Peters, "I never had much confidence in the perfidiousness of woman. As partners or coeducators in t…
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A Midsummer Masquerade
"Satan," said Jeff Peters, "is a hard boss to work for. When other people are having their vacation is when he keeps you the busiest. As ol…
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Shearing the Wolf
Jeff Peters was always eloquent when the ethics of his profession was under discussion. "The only times," said he, "that me and Andy Tucker…
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Innocents of Broadway
"I hope some day to retire from business," said Jeff Peters; "and when I do I don't want anybody to be able to say that I ever got a dollar…
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Conscience in Art
"I never could hold my partner, Andy Tucker, down to legitimate ethics of pure swindling," said Jeff Peters to me one day. "Andy had too mu…
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The Man Higher Up - (1)
Across our two dishes of spaghetti, in a corner of Provenzano's restaurant, Jeff Peters was explaining to me the three kinds of graft. Ever…
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The Man Higher Up - (2)
"'I must confess, Mr. Bassett,' says Ricks, speaking nearly inaudible out of a slice of pie, 'that at this immediate juncture I could not,…
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A Tempered Wind - (1)
The first time my optical nerves was disturbed by the sight of Buckingham Skinner was in Kansas City. I was standing on a corner when I see…
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A Tempered Wind - (2)
When any stockholder had paid in as much as $100, the company issued him a Gold Bond and he became a bondholder. I asked Atterbury one day…
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Hostages to Momus - (1)
I I never got inside of the legitimate line of graft but once. But, one time, as I say, I reversed the decision of the revised statutes and…
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Hostages to Momus - (2)
I put another hundred in a couple of cases of Bordeaux, two quarts of cognac, two hundred Havana regalias with gold bands, and a camp stove…
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The Ethics of Pig
On an east-bound train I went into the smoker and found Jefferson Peters, the only man with a brain west of the Wabash River who can use hi…