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The Challenge of the North by James B. Hendryx
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there any one here? I am locked in, and can't get out! Hello!
Someone show me the way out!"

Swiftly he ascended to the third floor and crossed to the fur case.
Silently he slid back the door and lifted the baum marten coat from its
place, and stepping to a counter upon which was fixed a huge roll of
wrapping paper, he proceeded to make the coat into a package. This
done, he hastened toward the stairway with the package under his arm.
Down the stairs he flew, taking them two and three at a time, down the
next flight, and across the floor, until he brought up panting at the
door with the spring lock by which the employees had left the building.

Thought of material gain had not until this point entered into the
scheme. He had merely plotted the undoing of a rival, but at the
sudden realization of his status in the eyes of the world, a new
thought struck him. "If I can get away with it--why not? A Russian
sable! Why, it's worth _thousands_!"

It took a concentrated effort to open the door a tiny crack and peer
through. Swiftly opening the door, Wentworth stepped onto the
sidewalk, closed the door behind him, and clutching his package
tightly, hurried down the street. He had entirely gained his composure
by the time he reached his hotel, and hastening to his room, placed the
package in his trunk and turned the key. He glanced at his watch. It
lacked three minutes of one, and remembering his appointment with
Orcutt, he hastened to the Wolverine Bank.




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