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Dashiell Hammett Quotes

We didn't exactly believe your story.'
Then--?'
We believed your two hundred dollars.'
You mean--' She seemed not to know what he meant.
I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

Dashiell Hammett

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