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At the dead of the night, when all others were at rest, Michael Rust glided out of his office. It was a strange hour, but he had become a strange man. Through the silent streets he stole, with a step so noiseless that it awoke no echo. Along Broadway, passing where the city en...
to my stomach, and without a prospect of getting one, you took me by the hand, and in a d----d gentlemanly way gave me a h'ist out of the gutter. _That's_ what you did; and if y...
1. Chapter 1At the dead of the night, when all others were at rest, Michael Rust glided out of his office. It was a strange hour, but he had become a strange man. Through the silent streets...
2. Chapter 2In a small room, containing a box-bedstead, a single chair, and a common wooden table, on which was a pitcher of water, sat Michael Rust. The heavy iron bars which grated the wi...