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The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

CHAPTER XIV
18/25

Then make a swift sneak for San Quentin, get here before the newspaper tug crosses the bay, and tell me what you read.

Then we'll wait and get a morning paper, when it comes in, from a guard.

Then, if what you told me is in that paper, I am with you to a fare-you-well." It was a good test.

I could not but agree with Oppenheimer that such a proof would be absolute.

Morrell said he would take it up some time, but that he disliked to such an extent the process of leaving his body that he would not make the attempt until such time that his suffering in the jacket became too extreme to be borne.
"That is the way with all of them--won't come across with the goods," was Oppenheimer's criticism.


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