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The Titan

CHAPTER XXX
11/19

The gentleman of the celluloid cuffs and collars, when informed about nine o'clock of this same Sunday morning that his building had been almost completely removed, was naturally greatly perturbed.

A portion of the wall was still standing when he arrived, hot and excited, and the police were appealed to.
But, strange to say, this was of little avail, for they were shown a writ of injunction issued by the court of highest jurisdiction, presided over by the Hon.

Nahum Dickensheets, which restrained all and sundry from interfering.

(Subsequently on demand of another court this remarkable document was discovered to have disappeared; the contention was that it had never really existed or been produced at all.) The demolition and digging proceeded.

Then began a scurrying of lawyers to the door of one friendly judge after another.


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