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Shadows of a
Great City
A ROMANTIC STORY FOUNDED UPON
L. R. SHEWELL’S PLAY OF THE SAME NAME
By GRACE MILLER WHITE
The Shadows of a Great City.
A ROMANTIC STORY
Founded Upon L. R. Shewell’s Famous Play of
the Same Name.
BY
GRACE MILLER WHITE,
Author of “Driven From Home,” “Joe Welch the Peddler,”
“No Wedding Bells for Her,” “Sky Farm,” “A Midnight
Marriage,” “Souvenir Book of ‘Way Down East’,”
“Why Women Sin,” “Human Hearts,” “A
Ragged Hero,” “From Rags to Riches,”
Etc., Etc.
Copyright, 1904, by
J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company.
All Rights Reserved by C. B. Jefferson.
New York:
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
57 Rose Street.
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SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY
CHAPTER I.
Three children were hopping among the daisiesin a beautiful grove near a stone mansion coveredwith ivy. Their happy shouts and merrylaughter filled the air until the birds in thebranches twittered back from very happiness.
Two boys and one little girl made up the number,and the girl was clapping her hands wildly,watching the boys as they wrestled in the grass.
The larger of them brought the other downupon his face and made him admit that the matchwas over.
“I had you foul when I wound my leg about[4]yours,” explained he. “You cannot expect todown a big fellow like me,” and the boy straightenedhimself with a chuckle.
The girl ceased her laughing and came forward.
“Well, I don’t care, George Benson; Tom’s asgood as you are any day. That’s what he is.”
“Nobody said he wasn’t,” contemptuously repliedthe lad, “but he can’t fight.”
Tom was watching George out of the cornerof his eye, trying to determine whe