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The Girl at the Halfway House

CHAPTER XXVIII
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We have driven out the savages, an' we have erected heah the vine an' fig tree of a new community.

We have brought hither ouah flocks an' herds.

We shall not allow crime, _red_-handed an' _on_-rebuked, to stalk through the quiet streets of ouah law-abidin', moral town! This man shall not go free! Justice, yo' Honah, justice, gentlemen, is what this community asks.

An' justice is what it is a-goin' to have.

Yo' Honah, an' gentlemen, I yiel' to the statement o' the defence." Franklin rose and looked calmly about him while the buzzing of comment and the outspoken exclamations of applause yet greeted the speech of the prosecutor.


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