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The Trampling of the Lilies

CHAPTER X
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"Now to prepare an explanation for it." He drew a chair under the old brass lamp, that hung from the ceiling.

He mounted the chair, and with both hands he seized the chain immediately above the lamp.

Drawing himself up, he swung there for just a second; then the hook gave way, and amid a shower of plaster La Boulaye half-tumbled to the ground.
"There," said he, as he dropped the lamp with its chain and hook upon the floor by Charlot.

"It may not be as convincing as we might wish, but I think that it will prove convincing enough to the dull wits of the landlady, and of such of Charlot's followers as may enter here.

I am afraid," he deplored, "that it will be some time before he recovers.


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