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The Third Violet

CHAPTER IV
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Such general volleyings can't fail to hit everything.

May the devil fly away with them!" Hawker regarded the group nervously, and at last propounded a great question: "Say, I wonder where they all are recruited?
When you come to think that almost every summer hotel----" "Certainly," said Hollanden, "almost every summer hotel.

I've studied the question, and have nearly established the fact that almost every summer hotel is furnished with a full corps of----" "To be sure," said Hawker; "and if you search for them in the winter, you can find barely a sign of them, until you examine the boarding houses, and then you observe----" "Certainly," said Hollanden, "of course.

By the way," he added, "you haven't got any obviously loose screws in your character, have you ?" "No," said Hawker, after consideration, "only general poverty--that's all." "Of course, of course," said Hollanden.

"But that's bad.


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