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Madamelajolla

Madame LaJolla knows how to hoya

Madame Julia LaJolla is the first customer encountered on McGinty's collection rounds in The Great McGinty. According to The Boss, she runs "a kind of fortune-telling outfit," as further signified by the presence of a crystal ball. Madame LaJolla upbraids McGinty, with the aid of crockery, for trying to bleed money from a poor old woman. When McGinty calmly explains the purpose of protection, the palm reader is persuaded and pays up.

It's implied that Julia's business involves more than second sight, however; she flirtatiously offers to take McGinty "upstairs to have your fortune told." When McGinty refuses, since it's strictly business for him, she returns with "well, you know where it is."

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