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The Colossus

CHAPTER XXVIII
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You didn't know that I was instrumental in the arrest of Brooks, did you ?" "Why, no, I never thought of such a thing." "You must keep it to yourself, but I was, and why?
I hated him.

Once he suggested to me that he would like to have you take lunch with him.
I told him that you didn't go out with any one, and with coldbloodedness he replied, 'Ah, she hasn't been here long.' I hated him from that moment.

Don't you see what a narrow-minded fellow I am ?" "Narrow-minded!" "Yes, to move the law against a man merely because he had spoken lightly of--of my friend." She was leaning against the door-case and was looking down.

She dropped a paper.

Henry glanced at the window, which he called his loop-hole of freedom, for through it no Colossus could be seen.


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