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The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories

CHAPTER V
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LA PATRIE has from Chicago: The cop of the theater of the opera of Wallace, Indiana, had willed to expel a spectator which continued to smoke in spite of the prohibition, who, spalleggiato by his friends, tire (Fr.

TIRE, Anglice PULLED) manifold revolver-shots; great panic among the spectators.
Nobody hurt." It is bettable that that harmless cataclysm in the theater of the opera of Wallace, Indiana, excited not a person in Europe but me, and so came near to not being worth cabling to Florence by way of France.

But it does excite me.

It excites me because I cannot make out, for sure, what it was that moved the spectator to resist the officer.

I was gliding along smoothly and without obstruction or accident, until I came to that word "spalleggiato," then the bottom fell out.


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