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The man whom poor dead Billy Florence used to make the dominant, laughter-breeding memory-haunting figure in "The Almighty Dollar," is with us still. He infests Washington for many months of each year. He saves the country with persistency. I purpose to tell of him as I have known him.
"My God!" he gasped, taking the photographs from her. "My God!" There could be no mistake. Both had been taken from the same negative! Old Thorndyke had lied then! This girl, with her memory-haunting, elusive beauty, was he sank back and stared at her. No: it could not be! Whatever the meaning was, he dared not think that she was his daughter!
Here suddenly was an opening in the rocky wall which shut in the narrow valley of humiliation, where all her prospect was the remote, unfathomed sky; and some of the memory-haunting earthly delights were no longer out of her reach.
The dining room was better a fine idea as to colour and furniture; the library, too Thornton paused and took a comprehensive glance. He liked the library, and the fireplace was perfect. He made a mental note. Then he stepped down into the room with its memory-haunting fountain.
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