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Children of the Whirlwind

CHAPTER XXVII
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Don't stand there in the door.

Come right in." Barney was keen enough to see, though Larry's attitude was careless and his tone light, that his eyes were bright and hard.

Barney moved forward a couple of paces, alert for anything, and Old Jimmie followed.
Maggie looked on at the three men, her girlish figure taut and hardly breathing.
"Didn't know you were in New York," said Barney.
"Well, here I am all right," returned Larry with his menacing cheerfulness.
By now Barney had recovered from his first surprise.

He felt it time to assert his supremacy.
"How do you come to be here with Maggie ?" he demanded abruptly.
"Happened to catch sight of her on the street to-day.

Trailed her here to the Grantham, and to-night I just dropped in." Barney's tone grew more authoritative, more ugly.


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