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Excerpt from The Old Blood
If Bill Hurley were at the station the auguries would be right, and there he was, standing on the same spot where he had stood for twenty years when the trains arrived; there, too, the stooped old station agent in his moment of bus tling importance. By the calendar of Bill's chin it was Tuesday; for Bill shaved only on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons. A man of observa tion and opinion this keeper of the gate of Long field, who let the world come to him and took charge of its baggage and conveyed its persons to their destinations. He was also a dispenser of news.
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