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THE THIRD DEGREE
A Narrative of Metropolitan Life
By CHARLES KLEIN AND ARTHUR HORNBLOW
Authors of the novel THE LION AND THE MOUSE
Illustrations by CLARENCE ROWE
GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: New York
Copyright, 1909, by
G. W. Dillingham Company
"I ACCUSE YOU OF PREJUDICING THE COMMUNITY AGAINST THE PRISONER BEFORE HE COMES TO TRIAL."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
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"I ACCUSE YOU OF PREJUDICING THE COMMUNITY AGAINST THE PRISONER BEFOREHE COMES TO TRIAL."
"YOU DID IT, AND YOU KNOW YOU DID IT."
"I CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU," SAID THE JUDGE.
"WHEN THIS MYSTERIOUS WITNESS DOES COME I SHALL PLACE HER UNDER ARREST."
The Third Degree
CHAPTER I.
"I'm N. G.—that's a cinch! The sooner I chuck it the better!"
Caught in the swirl of the busy city's midday rush, engulfed inBroadway's swift moving flood of hustling humanity, jostledunceremoniously by the careless, indifferent crowds, discouraged fromstemming further the tide of pushing, elbowing men and women who hurriedup and down the great thoroughfa