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CHAPTER ONE--YOUNG POWELL AND HIS CHANCE
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Of course, sir.

I saw the gentleman running races all by 'isself down 'ere, so I.

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." "It's all right I tell you," Mr.Powell cut him short with a wave of his hand; and, as the old fraud walked off at last, he raised his eyes to me.
I did not know what to do: stay there, or clear out, or say that I was sorry.
"Let's see," says he, "what did you tell me your name was ?" "Now, observe, I hadn't given him my name at all and his question embarrassed me a bit.

Somehow or other it didn't seem proper for me to fling his own name at him as it were.


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