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of a pair of eyeglasses, blinks on. He is soon hooked into playing cards with a prostitute and her company, and he ends up tied in a murder case when he is caught near the scene of a death of the bumpkin, narrowly escaping staying in jail. Afterwards, he goes home to his wife as the sun rises,
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