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After Dark

PROLOGUE TO THE SECOND STORY
10/53

I have given you the first that came into my head.
Well, Mr.Frank was a stanch friend of mine, and ready to recommend me whenever he got the chance.

I had contrived to get him a little timely help--for a consideration, of course--in borrowing money at a fair rate of interest; in fact, I had saved him from the Jews.

The money was borrowed while Mr.Frank was at college.

He came back from college, and stopped at home a little while, and then there got spread about all our neighborhood a report that he had fallen in love, as the saying is, with his young sister's governess, and that his mind was made up to marry her.

What! you're at it again, Mr.Artist! You want to know her name, don't you?
What do you think of Smith?
Speaking as a lawyer, I consider report, in a general way, to be a fool and a liar.


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