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The next morning Miss Starr, Billy, Midget and Andy went to the headquarters of The Biggest Show on Earth. Andy had a chance to inspect it while waiting for Bob Sanderson, the assistant manager, who was a distant relative of Miss Stella Starr. Its mammoth proportions fairly staggered him. Its details were bewildering in their system and perfection.
For the sake of secrecy, Starr had avoided any acquaintance with him and his brother officers, so the sheriff gave him several sharp glances while he was viewing the body and the immediate surroundings.
I only came here on business six years ago, but the memory of Starr sort of clings like it was a good thing to keep alive." "How beautifully you put it!" Greeley was thinking how well the government had stocked this dangerous spy with facts, and so he did not observe the tears in her eyes. "There was a little church he built himself is it still standing?
"So you and Starr Wiley both failed." Willa spoke as if to herself. "Not I!" Thode's eyes flashed with determination. "I told you I had only just begun. I am going to find Tia Juana if she is above ground and buy out her claim. To her it only means the ancestral estate.
Of course you are. Wait right here I'll call Mary Starr." She rushed away and before Jerry could catch her breath she returned with a tall, pleasant-faced girl who carried a small leather-bound notebook in her hand. She wrote Jerry's name in it and went away. "Miss Travis, will you sign up for hockey?" Jerry, on familiar ground, eagerly assented to this. Her name went into another book.
He employed peculiar methods to fit a peculiar case. One afternoon Starr sat and stared for some time at Vaniman. They were alone in the bank. Receiver Waite and Vona had gone away. "Would you relish a little show?" inquired the examiner. Vaniman had nerved himself against all kinds of surprise, he thought, but he was not prepared for this proffer of entertainment.
"Well, I'm eating these pork and beans just now, and I'm doing it well, ain't I?" retorted Don, making everyone laugh again. "Dot and you always do the meal-work thoroughly," replied Mrs. Starr, still laughing.
"Patients don't die then under the metric system?" said the Doctor. "No wonder Europe's overcrowded," said Starr. But the student's mind inhabited heights above such trifling. "Death," he said, "occurs in ratios not differentiated from our statistics." And he told them much more while they booked at him over their plates.
He had suspected trickery and fraud in connection with the making over of the lease, and when the Notary Public described the woman who had appeared before him as Tia Juana with with Starr Wiley " Her voice sank at mention of the name which had cast such a shadow over her for many days. "Mr. Thode knew it was an impostor.
Cora slipped away. It was Mr. Breslin who spoke next. "And you really remember?" he asked of Mr. Starr. "How was it that you ran away?" "The bank president's name had been forged to a check for ten thousand dollars!" "Yes, I know that well," said Mr. Breslin. "And they traced the forgery to me!" "But you knew you were innocent!"
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