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The Man Who Was Thursday

CHAPTER XIII
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Twenty minutes afterwards, however, he came back and made quite a clamour in the hall.

Syme, who tried at first to soothe him, was forced at last to listen to his communication with quite new attention.
"I tell you I've seen him!" said Dr.Bull, with thick emphasis.
"Whom ?" asked Syme quickly.

"Not the President ?" "Not so bad as that," said Dr.Bull, with unnecessary laughter, "not so bad as that.

I've got him here." "Got whom here ?" asked Syme impatiently.
"Hairy man," said the other lucidly, "man that used to be hairy man--Gogol.

Here he is," and he pulled forward by a reluctant elbow the identical young man who five days before had marched out of the Council with thin red hair and a pale face, the first of all the sham anarchists who had been exposed.
"Why do you worry with me ?" he cried.


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