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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, January 17, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 19

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with a delighted aijdlence grinning
Us approval. He swallowed, v'esper
ately, the precipice of his aesophagus
like an ore-skip diving, into a shaft.
His body doubled convulsively, and
there came a cought, unheralded and
sharp as sudden, metallic, and loud
as the exhaust of a switch engine on
a, frosty mornings Men and horses
leaped together, and they were
snrtched clattcriag into full flight.
Simult? usly there was a jolting
crash and a muffled squeak from the
girl.
Oh, lasting disgrace! Shorty had
taken out the corner post of the hotel
porch.
Under her tactful loquacity the
dust dissolved in Shorty's mouth, the
constricted paralysis left his larynx,
and sounds born of intellect began to
issue, hoarse and unintelligible at
first, but approximating rhetoric of a
kind.
Two Figures Had Arisen Armed, Masked.-

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