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The Puppet Crown

CHAPTER XIV
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He would start on the morrow.

Tonight he wanted once more to hear the band, to wander about the park, to row around the rear of the archbishop's garden.
"A fine thing to be born in purple--sometimes," he mused.

"I never knew till now the inconveniences of the common mold." He tramped on, building chateaux en Espagne.

That they tumbled down did not matter; he could rebuild in the space of a second, and each castle an improvement on its predecessor.
His attention was suddenly drawn away from this idle but pleasant pursuit.

In a side street he saw twenty or thirty students surging back and forth, laughing and shouting and jostling.


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