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The Octopus

CHAPTER VI
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Two quarts 'n' a half." "Ah, yes, in a way, that's so; and then, again, in a way, it ISN'T.

I know better." All along one side of the barn were a row of stalls, fourteen of them, clean as yet, redolent of new cut wood, the sawdust still in the cracks of the flooring.

Deliberately the druggist went from one to the other, pausing contemplatively before each.

He returned down the line and again took up his position by the door of the feed room, nodding his head judicially, as if satisfied.

He decided to put on his gloves.
By now it was quite dark.


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