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Page 37
... Black Guinea had mentioned a " ge'mman wid a big book " along with other " honest " gentlemen ( 13 ) ; and later the man with the weed had informed the merchant , as a favor for the loan received from him , that there might be an ...
... Black Guinea had mentioned a " ge'mman wid a big book " along with other " honest " gentlemen ( 13 ) ; and later the man with the weed had informed the merchant , as a favor for the loan received from him , that there might be an ...
Page 51
... Black Guinea and Ringman , or between the herb doctor and the P.I.O. man , is merely implied ; there is no undeniable evidence that any of these confidence men are in collusion or that a single confidence man in masquerade has assumed ...
... Black Guinea and Ringman , or between the herb doctor and the P.I.O. man , is merely implied ; there is no undeniable evidence that any of these confidence men are in collusion or that a single confidence man in masquerade has assumed ...
Page 66
... Black Guinea's prophetic list and the actual masquerades of the central confidence man , the introduction of the mute before Black Guinea makes his introductory prophecy , and such parallelisms with St. Paul's officers of the church as ...
... Black Guinea's prophetic list and the actual masquerades of the central confidence man , the introduction of the mute before Black Guinea makes his introductory prophecy , and such parallelisms with St. Paul's officers of the church as ...
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