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CHAPTER THREE--THRIFT--AND THE CHILD
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There were also very few materials accessible to a man like me to form a judgment from.

But in such a case I verify believe that a little is as good as a feast--perhaps better.

If one has a taste for that kind of thing the merest starting-point becomes a coign of vantage, and then by a series of logically deducted verisimilitudes one arrives at truth--or very near the truth--as near as any circumstantial evidence can do.

I have not studied de Barral but that is how I understand him so far as he could be understood through the din of the crash; the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the newspaper contents bills, "The Thrift Frauds.

Cross-examination of the accused.


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