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Jean of the Lazy A

CHAPTER XVII
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Something like that would suit you, maybe.

It don't suit the people who pay good nickels and dimes to get a thrill, though." "Neither does this sort of junk, if they've got any sense.

Think of paying nickel after nickel to see Lee Milligan rush to the girl's door, knock, learn the fatal news, stagger back and clap his hand to his brow and say 'Great Heaven! GONE!'" Jean, stirred to combat by the sarcasm of Robert Grant Burns, did the stagger and the hand-to-brow and great-heaven scene with a realism that made Pete Lowry turn his back suddenly.

"They've seen Gil abduct me or Muriel seven times in a perfectly impossible manner, and they--oh, why don't you give them something REAL?
Things that are thrilling and dangerous and terrible do happen out here, Mr.Burns.

Real adventures and real tragedies--" She stopped, and Burns turned his eyes involuntarily toward the kitchen.


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