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• 1In the morning I asked a young Indian, who was wet to the
• 2in the middle of the room. The mother, who had carried
• 3half of that paid to the men at the “front” because
• 4through a center notch. As it became freer from impurities,
• 5might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
• 6upon it as musicians do upon a theme. Instanter I saw Paris
• 7so I learned, were at work, but at night would be home
• 8the skill and agility of a tight-rope performer, tossed
• 9pouring into the cave of the dragon through the open door
• 10A third paper, Town Topics, was the best of all, a paper
• 11considered a feature. By nine or ten I had solved that
• 12this court stood a circular wooden building or lavatory
• 13They were approaching the river, and there was a fog to-night!
• 14the recent defeat administered to organized labor and the
• 15circle bending it back again to enter the last roll, from
• 16him I saw a prospect so wide that it left me breathless—all
• 17the great caravan routes entering the Sahara from the south.
• 18number of furnaces going at once, the piles, mountains,
• 19This I did from day to day, wandering out into the country
• 20and Scranton. As he himself told me, he was the paper’s
• 21her arms, and laughed shrilly, insanely. Then she turned
• 22open to me. Here was one who saw, thought, felt. Through
• 23would eventually lose by poverty, as he by trickery, the
• 24upon a vein of my own, was not inclined to favor the moods
• 25unlocked the door at the foot of the steps. He turned,
• 26billet after billet from furnace after furnace and threw
• 27seven feet high and six feet square, with two compartments,
• 28dollar to one-sixty-five at a time when two a day was too
• 29in an iron sluice gate. The Eurasian had passed it, but
• 30shutters clapped and papers flew and office windows and
• 31cheerfully showed us, were double iron bedsteads set close
• 32to accomplish for me what his imaginary magic skin had
• 33unlocked the door at the foot of the steps. He turned,
• 34as he or his friends the bosses showed me, was divided
• 35of slums I had seen at Homestead, of those fine houses
• 36charming rivers, these many little bridges, the sharp contrasts
• 37possessed for him. So it came that his was a familiar figure
• 38President, at that time or since, was giving them. As I
• 39attained by a man of not more than forty-five years of
• 40bars, unloaded and loaded trains, worked in cinder pits,
• 41and gunpowder. The latter article was required for a very
• 42slow, silent, dark, square-shouldered and almost square-headed
• 43entertained the public with free recitals, and so capable
• 44of news and still interest their readers. The Spring time,
• 45And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
• 46literary instincts at the time, I was able to render just
• 47How I brooded over all this, the marriages and rumors of
• 48of that day should have been more alive to their interests,
• 49golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
• 50a trust-dictated American Senate and House to take cognizance