AtD translation: opium-pipe special

[Paul Mackin]

without looking into the context of the thing I'd say it was just something
dreamed up without any reality behind it.

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 12:51 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P180.36-39   “All this time out here, so far, far from the lights of
> Michigan Avenue, and never once suspecting . . . why it was just some damn
> opium-pipe special’s all it ever was—”
>        “Sure wouldn’t want any hard feelings, Lew—”
>
> What is an "opium-pipe special" exactly?
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