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Excerpt from Shadow Mountain
She showed him into the spacious dining room, Where the Colonel had once presided in state, and hurried into the kitchen. The young man gazed after her, looked swiftly about the room and backed away towards the door; then his strong jaw closed down, he smiled grimly to himself and sat down unbidden at a table. The table was mahogany and, in a case against the wall, there was a scant display Of cut glass; but the linen was worn thin and the expensive velvet carpet had been ruined by hob nailed boots. Heavy workingmen's dishes lay on the tables, the plating was Worn from the knives, and the last echoing ghost of vanished gentility was dispelled by a voice from the kitchen. It was the Widow Huff, once the first lady Of Keno, but now a boarding-house cook.
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