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Wild Youth
Volume Complete

CHAPTER XIII
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I'm not afraid of that bad man.

I want to catch my train." Orlando stepped aside, and his mother passed through, to the consternation of Mazarine, who fell back.

The old man now realized that Burlingame had tricked him.

Laughter went up from the crowd.

They had had a great show at no cost.
"'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,' Mr.Mazarine!" called someone from the crowd.
"It's the next train she's going by, old Moses-not-much," shouted a friend of Jonas Billings.
"She's had enough of you, Joel!" sneered another mocker.
"Wouldn't you like to know where she is, yellow-lugs ?" queried a fat washerwoman.
For an instant Mazarine stood demused, and then, thrusting the Bible into his pocket, he drew himself up in an effort of pride and defiance.
"Judases! Jezebels!" he burst out at them all.


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