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The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER XI
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A moment later, the judge looked over his glasses.
"Bailiff!" "Yes, Your Honor." "Have you any information regarding the value of the Blue Poppy mining claims ?" "Sir, I have just been talking to Mr.Rodaine.

He says they 're well worth the value of the bond." "How about that, Rodaine ?" The judge peered down the court room.
Squint Rodaine scratched his hawklike nose with his thumb and nodded.
"They 'll do," was his answer, and the judge passed the papers to the clerk of the court.
"Bond accepted.

I 'll set this trial for--" "If Your Honor please, I should like it at the very, very earliest possible moment," Randolph P.Farrell had cut in.

"This is working a very great hardship upon an innocent man and--" "Can't be done." The judge was scrawling on his docket.

"Everything 's too crowded.


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