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The Cross-Cut

CHAPTER VI
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There 'll be a fiddle orchestra, and a dance caller and everything like that, and a bar--but of course there 'll only be imitation liquor.

But," she added with quick emphasis, "there 'll be a lot of things really real--real keno and roulette and everything like that, and everybody in the costume of thirty or forty years ago.

Don't you want to buy a ticket?
It's the last one I 've got!" she added prettily.

But Robert Fairchild had been listening with his eyes, rather than his ears.

Jerkily he came to the realization that the girl had ceased speaking.
"When's it to be ?" "A week from to-morrow night.


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