Chapter
1 1 | Nevertheless, some of the chief and shrewder farm owners
2 2 | doubt it,” responded the chief. “And I will ask you instead
3 2 | and drank in honor of the chief of police.~“And now,” demanded
4 2 | Carolina. I assured him that my chief had given me full power,
5 2 | bushy brows. Evidently the chief magistrate of Morganton
6 3 | resolved, Mr. Strock.”~“My chief has charged me to snatch
7 4 | radiated from Philadelphia, the chief city, there circulated an
8 5 | had presented myself at my chief’s office, but had been unable
9 5 | No doubt,” responded the chief, “but such an undertaking
10 5 | absolutely the opinion of my chief. It is among rascals that
11 5 | discussed this affair, the chief and I; and I thought that
12 5 | second part of the report, my chief had underlined some passages
13 5 | over, Strock?” demanded my chief.~“It is this, Mr. Ward;
14 6 | North Carolina, June 13th.~Chief Inspector of Police,~34
15 7 | attention upon themselves. Their chief security would lie in keeping
16 7 | Beelzebub himself and one of his chief attendants were at my heels.~
17 8 | inventor; and there seemed the chief difficulty. In vain was
18 8 | to defy all pursuit?”~My chief then went on to explain
19 8 | mention this letter to my chief at some future time, when
20 8 | what I intend,” said the chief, interrupting me. “You are
21 8 | great profit,” added my chief, dismissing me.~Returning
22 10| eagerly into the room.~The chief had spread before him the
23 10| you have studied it.”~My chief turned to the letter again
24 15| machine through the air.~The chief aerial support, however,
25 16| presidency of one of the chief personages of Philadelphia,
26 17| the name of John Strock, chief inspector of the federal
27 17| grottoes of the Eyrie.~Then the chief of the two assistants, a
28 17| Was I or was I not Strock, chief inspector of the federal
29 18| and also the joy of my chief, when the door of his cabinet
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