when those original girls got themselves in a partnership frame of mind he cut them in for a slice each and then sent them out for a whole new string of younger , fresher girls with no partnership frame of mind whatsoever and then the deacon broscious branched out into the saloon business and the numbers business and the choctaw and heroin and opium business and any man who fucked , fixed , boozed , or bet in greenwood got right familiar with either the deacon or someone who worked for him .