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 III. Nine Days' Wonder

," shouted Phil Sandbourne and pounded with his fist on the desk, "I don't think so A man's morals arent anybody's business. It's his work that counts."

"Well?"

"Well I think Stanford White has done more for the city of New York that any other man living. Nobody knew there was such a thing as architecture before he came And to have this Thaw shoot him down in cold blood and then get away with it By gad if the people of this town had the spirit of guineapigs they'd"

"Phil you're getting all excited over nothing." The other man took his cigar out of his mouth and leaned back in his swivel chair and yawned.

"Oh hell I want a vacation. Golly it'll be good to get out in those old Maine woods again."