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Kilo

CHAPTER XIV
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Something Turns Up.
Something turned up the very next day.

It turned all Kilo upside down as nothing had for years, and created such a demand for the TIMES that J.
T.Jones had to print an extra edition of sixty copies, and he would have printed ten more if his press had not broken down.
Across two columns--the TIMES never used over one column headlines except for the elections--blazed the work "GRAFT," and beneath, in but a size or two smaller, stared the "sub-head" "OFFICIAL OF KILO CORRUPTED.
CITIZENS' PARTY ROTTEN TO THE CORE.

PROMINENT CITIZEN IMPLICATED." Beneath this followed the moral of it, "The City, as Predicted in These Columns, Suffers for Departing from The Beneficent Rule of the Republican Party." Attorney Toole was sitting in his office when the boy from the TIMES delivered the paper to him.

He smiled as he opened the damp sheet, for he extracted more amusement than news from the little paper, but as he turned it the headlines caught his eye, and instantly he was deep in the columns.


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