"I'll handle it," Slick said coldly to the gunman. "It's a private matter." "You're new here, son, so I'll tell you," the gunman said in a flat Southern voice. "There ain't no private matter when you're carryin' the house's money."

Slick stops a house gunman from interfering, and the gunman reminds him whose money he is carrying.

— Slick, the gunman in Harlem Cycle #4 - The Big Gold Dream (Chester Himes, 1959)


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