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27212	Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)	The Life of the Party			.txt	text/plain	15870	782	78	But the reader and I, better informed than any lamp post could be as to the prior sequence of events, would know at a glance it was no parsnip we beheld, but Mr. Algernon Leary, now suddenly enveloped, through no fault of his own, in one of the most overpowering predicaments conceivable to involve a rising lawyer and a member of at least two good clubs; and had we but been there to watch him, knowing, as we would know, the developments leading up to this present situation, we might have guessed what was the truth: That Mr. Leary was hot bent upon retreating to the only imaginable refuge left to him at this juncture--to wit, the interior of the stranded taxicab which he had abandoned but a short time previously. It's a gentleman calling on Mr. Slack, wheezed Mr. Leary with his head over the balusters.	cache/27212.txt	txt/27212.txt
