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Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Girl from Farris's
The Girl from Farris's
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Doarty Makes a "Pinch"
Chapter II: And Wires are Pulled
Chapter III: The Grand Jury
Chapter IV: Decency
Chapter V: A Friend in Need
Chapter VI: Secor's Fiancee
Chapter VII: June's Employer
Chapter VIII: Sammy the Sleuth
Chapter IX: "Unclean--Unclean!"
Chapter X: "Rats Desert--"
Chapter XI: A Matter of Memory
Chapter XII: Just Three Words
Chapter XIII: "For the Murder of--"
Chapter XIV: Some Loose Threads
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Published by Good Press, 2020
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The girl had known of many who had gone to the pen on slighter evidence than this. She knew that the police had been searching for some one upon whom to fasten the murder of a well known business man who had not been murdered at all, but who had had the lack of foresight to succumb to an attack of acute endocarditis in the hallway of the Farris place.
The searching eyes of the plain-clothes man had not failed to detect the little shudder of horror that had been the visible reaction in the girl to the sudden recollections induced by mention of that unpleasant affair, and while he had no reason whatever to suspect her or another of any criminal responsibility for the man's death, yet he made a mental note of the effect his words had had upon her.
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