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THE WATERWORKS.
This is the story of one of the most far-reaching and influentially naughty things we ever did in our lives.

We did not mean to do such a deed.

And yet we did do it.

These things will happen with the best-regulated consciences.
The story of this rash and fatal act is intimately involved--which means all mixed up anyhow--with a private affair of Oswald's, and the one cannot be revealed without the other.