Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 603
es thatsmiled encouragingly. Hoag—that was a funnyname! His face was covered with freckles. It 996 PHANTOM GOLD [Sept. looked as if there was an honest laugh stowedaway somewhere—a laugh that would be goodto hear. Ban Hoag, too, was dressed in rags; atattered shirt partly covered him to the… … I IX BEAR Y A HAND ON THE COOKIN A glance was sufficient for the realization thatthere was something of a contradiction about thisHoag. His rags were the rags of the humanwharf-rat, and when he spoke it was in the sharp,sophisticated accents, the jargon of the water-front. Yet there was that about…
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