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In spite of the fact that Miles Fallon had spent many of his thirty-one years in running about the country, he had received an average education. That is, he had struggled through college,—"without," as he said, "having been branded A.B. or A.M.,"—and had subsequently taken a brief post-graduate course in what he called "Society 1." Subsequently, and perhaps as a protest against what he learned in that course, he went to Arizona and mingled with the alkali and adobe. Besides supplying him with material for the novels which had made him well known, his years in the West and