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Penrod and Sam

CHAPTER IX
19/23

"I'll say my name's Henry." "Well, we better get started," said the executive Penrod.

"We got to get away from here, anyway." But when they came to ascend the steps leading to the "outside doors", they found that those doors had been closed and locked for the night.
"It's no use," Sam lamented, "and we can't bust 'em, cause I tried to, once before.

Fanny always locks 'em about five o'clock--I forgot.

We got to go up the stairway and try to sneak out through the house." They tiptoed back, and up the inner stairs.

They paused at the top, then breathlessly stepped out into a hall that was entirely dark.


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