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Elsie’s Womanhood

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH
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Evidently he had once possessed more than an ordinary share of physical beauty, but vice and evil passions had set their stamp upon his features, and famine had done its ghastly work; he was but a wreck of his former self.
"Where have I seen that face ?" murmured Harry, unconsciously thinking aloud.
"In the rogues' gallery, perhaps.

Tom Jackson is his name, or one of his names; for he has several aliases, I'm told," remarked some one standing near.
"Yes, he's the very man!" exclaimed Harry.

"I have studied his photograph and recognize him fully, in spite of famine's ravages.

The wretch! he deserves all he suffers: and yet I pity him." "What! the would-be assassin of Viamede ?" and Harold started to his feet, the hot blood dyeing his thin cheeks.
"The same.

You feel like lynching him on the spot; and no wonder.


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