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Updated: May 29, 2025

But this is not exactly the sort of thing one finds it easy to confide to a policeman, be he ever so friendly a policeman. Cleggett Old Clegg, the copyreader Clegg, the commonplace C. J. Cleggett, the Brooklynite-this person whom young reporters conceived of as the staid, dry prophet of the dusty Fact was secretly a mighty reservoir of unwritten, unacted, unlived, unspoken romance.

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