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The Colossus

CHAPTER XII
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It was a long time before I discovered your beauties.

I used to think that the men who loved you were the enemies of a higher grade of life, and perhaps they were, but I love you.

You are a great man, Mr.Flummers.Nature designed you to be the president of a life insurance company." "Well, say, I know that." "Yes," continued McGlenn.

"A life insurance company ought to employ you as a great joss, and charge people for the privilege of a mere glimpse of you." "I shouldn't think," said Richmond, "that a man who had committed murder in Nebraska would be so extreme as to pose as the president of a life insurance company." "Mr.Hammers, did you commit a murder in Nebraska ?" McGlenn asked.
"Oh, no." "But didn't you confess that you killed a man there ?" Richmond urged.
"Oh, well, that was a mistake." "What?
The confession ?" "No, the killing.

You see, I was out of work, and I struck a doctor for a job in his drug-store; and once, when the doctor was away, an old fellow sent over to have a prescription filled, and I filled it.
And when the doctor returned he saw the funeral procession going past the store.


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