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Penrod

CHAPTER IV DESPERATION
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Little knights and ladies of the Table Round would not make so much noise.

Now children, we must begin to take our places on the stage.

Is everybody here ?" Penrod made his escape under cover of this diversion: he slid behind Mrs.Lora Rewbush, and being near a door, opened it unnoticed and went out quickly, closing it behind him.

He found himself in a narrow and vacant hallway which led to a door marked "Janitor's Room." Burning with outrage, heart-sick at the sweet, cold-blooded laughter of Marjorie Jones, Penrod rested his elbows upon a window-sill and speculated upon the effects of a leap from the second story.

One of the reasons he gave it up was his desire to live on Maurice Levy's account: already he was forming educational plans for the Child Sir Galahad.
A stout man in blue overalls passed through the hallway muttering to himself petulantly.


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