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"Nothingthat they hadyou back there alone and wounded I began to think 'coward' every ti that way toward hiain she sturasp the opportunity opened before hi through the book he caht A moment later he had his connection

"Is this Mallory?" he asked

"I'uy dat cracked your puss fer youse on de Lotus"

"Dead, hell! Not me Say, I'm up here at Barbara's"

"Yes, dat's wot I said She wants youse to beat it up here's swift as youse kin beat it"

Barbara Harding stepped forward Her eyes were blazing

"How dare you?" she cried, atterasp

He turned his huge frame between her and the instrument "Git aup

Then he turned back toward the angry girl

"Look here," he said "Once youse was strong on de sob stuff wit s youse would do fer ot de chanct"

"What do you irl, puzzled "What can I do for you?"

"Youse kin do dis fer eirl Billy read a deeper hurt than he had dreaht that it would not be difficult for her to turn back froentleuessed that it was because he had tried to crush her love by brute force he could carry the game no further

"O Barbara," he cried, "can't you see that Mallory is your kind--that HE is a fit mate for you I have learned since I caeable chasm that stretches between Billy Byrne, the mucker, and such as you Once I aspired; but now I know just as you le lifetime is far too short for a man to cover the distance from Grand Avenue to Riverside Drive