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Title: The Third Degree
A Narrative of Metropolitan Life

Author: Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow

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THE THIRD DEGREE

A Narrative of Metropolitan Life

by

CHARLES KLEIN and ARTHUR HORNBLOW

Authors of the novel _The Lion and the Mouse_

Illustrations by Clarence Rowe

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers :: New York

Copyright, 1909, by
G. W. Dillingham Company

_The Third Degree._

[Illustration: "I ACCUSE YOU OF PREJUDICING THE COMMUNITY AGAINST THE
PRISONER BEFORE HE COMES TO TRIAL."]

CONTENTS

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III

IV

V

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VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

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List of Illustrations

"I ACCUSE YOU OF PREJUDICING THE COMMUNITY AGAINST THE PRISONER BEFORE
HE COMES TO TRIAL."

"YOU DID IT, AND YOU KNOW YOU DID IT."

"I CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU," SAID THE JUDGE.

"WHEN THIS MYSTERIOUS WITNESS DOES COME I SHALL PLACE HER UNDER ARREST."

The Third Degree

CHAPTER I.

"I'm N. G.--that's a cinch! The sooner I chuck it the better!"

Caught in the swirl of the busy city's midday rush, engulfed in
Broadway's swift moving flood of hustling humanity, jostled
unceremoniously by the careless, indifferent crowds, discouraged from
stemming further the tide of pushing, elbowing men and women who hurried
up and down the great thoroughfare, Howard Jeffries, tired and hungry
and thoroughly disgusted with himself,