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The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On

CHAPTER IV
19/30

I pay for both of you.

Wish it was more, but you see how I'm hooked up.

You'll have a better time with a young fellow like Archie than you would with an old fogy like me, anyhow.

Here, we'll be left!" He made for the ferry slips with the anxious Bickford.
Thus did the wily Mr.Mitchell justify his headship.

In these profuse strains of unpremeditated art, apparently the merest of rambling commonplace, he had plainly conveyed to his henchmen that, though foiled by the countryman's straightforward single-mindedness, they were not to adopt a policy of scuttle, but persevere in the paths of manifest destiny to benevolent assimilation; at the same time adroitly extricating his embarrassed lieutenant from a very present predicament.


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