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 "Louder, Tommie, louder." The voice swelled brave and loud. Tommie could hear the judge feebly tapping the time on the sheets.

Tommie was conscious that the tapping had ceased. He quickened into the refrain:

Faster, Tommie,—tempus fugit.

There is another verse, Tommie, but you need not trouble to sing it.