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The President

CHAPTER I
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He introduced himself: "Mr.Richard Storms." The mother gave him her card: "Mrs.John Harley." She added: "My name is Hanway-Harley, and this is my daughter, Dorothy Harley.
Hanway is my own family name; I always use it." Then she thanked Richard for his saving interference in her child's destinies.

"Just to think!" she concluded, and a curdling horror gathered in her tones.

"Dorothy, you might have broken your nose!" Richard ran a glance over Mrs.Hanway-Harley.

She was not coarse, but was superficial--a woman of inferior ideals.

He marveled how a being so fine as the daughter could have had a no more silken source, and hugged the boot-heel.


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