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Perhaps no other man could have escaped; but James Bansemer was cleverest when in a corner He backed away, held them at bay until he could recover his breath, and then defied them to their teeth Despite their proof, he baffled them, and virtue was not its oard--at least in this instance

In leaving New York, he hoped that Ellas Drooo into the new territory with hiaunt, old clerk took an unnatural andto his eive up his place in the office, and, although he hated Ja shadow into the new offices near the Chicago River, and there he toiled, grinned and scoith the same old faithfulness