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The Man Who Lost Himself

Chapter 5 THE POINT OF THE JOKE

Word Count: 746    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

had escaped from a cage full of monkeys. Monkeys in the form of men, creatures who would

s own things he would strike. If he could not get a lawyer to take his case up against Rochester, h

ut for the purpose of making the servants believe that he, Rochester, had been stripped of everything by sharks, and sent home in an old

houghts before going to the Savoy

id, told him more about Rochester than many statements. This man wanted

trousers pocket, he felt something in the pocket. It was a coin. He took

le thing was his own fault. It was quite easy to say that Rochester had led him along and tempted him; he was a full grown man and should have resisted temptatio

k, walking by the way he had come, a

r twelve o'clock, and the first evening papers were out. A hawker with a bundle of papers under his

an in London!" were t

is penny, produced i

ster's doings of the night before might have been caught by the Press through the Police ne

ever seen it before in print, and the sight and the circumstances made

s the p

jump from the platform on to the metals. Before the station officials could interfere to save

n verified as that of Mr. V. A. Jones, an American gentleman

in his hand, appalled. Roch

irst moment of their meeting. Unable to resist the prompting of the extraordinary likeness, this joker, this waster, done to the world, had l

point of the

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