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The Gentleman From Indiana

CHAPTER XIX
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Harkless seized his companion excitedly by the elbow.
"Tommy!" he cried.

"It's Kim Fentriss--look! Did you see that old fellow ?" "I saw a particularly uninterested and uninteresting gentleman sitting on a bag," replied his friend.
"Why, that's old Kimball Fentriss.

He's going to town; he lives on the edge of the county." "Can this be true ?" said Meredith gravely.
"I wonder," said Harkless thoughtfully, a few moments later, "I wonder why he had them changed around." "Who changed around ?" "The team.

He always used to drive the bay on the near side, and the sorrel on the off." "And at present," rejoined Meredith, "I am to understand that he is driving the sorrel on the near side, and bay on the off ?" "That's it," returned the other.

"He must have worked them like that for some time, because they didn't look uneasy.


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