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The American Claimant

CHAPTER V
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And do you know, not one of these collegians has had the cruelty to ask me how I came by my new name.

With some, this is due to charity, but with the others it isn't.

They refrain, not from native kindness but from educated discretion.

I educated them.
Well, as soon as I shall have settled up what's left of the old scores and snuffed up a few more of those pleasantly intoxicating clouds of incense, I shall pack and depart homeward.

Tell papa I am as fond of him as I am of my new name.


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