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Title: The Ape, the Idiot & Other People

Author: W. C. Morrow

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The Ape, The Idiot and Other People
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THE APE, THE IDIOT & OTHER PEOPLE

By

W. C. MORROW

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1910

Copyright, 1897
By
J. B. Lippincott Company

The stories in this volume are published with the kind permission of
the periodicals in which they originally appeared--_Lippincott's
Magazine_, Philadelphia, and the _Overland Monthly_, the _Argonaut_,
the _Examiner_, the _News Letter_, and the _Call_, all of San
Francisco.

CONTENTS

Page

The Resurrection of Little Wang Tai 9

The Hero of the Plague 24

His Unconquerable Enemy 48

The Permanent Stiletto 67

Over an Absinthe Bottle 90

The Inmate of the Dungeon 109

A Game of Honor 134

Treacherous Velasco 147

An Uncommon View of It 168

A Story Told by the Sea 188

The Monster-Maker 213

An Original Revenge 245

Two Singular Men 256

The Faithful Amulet 275

The Resurrection of Little Wang Tai

A train of circus-wagons, strung along a dusty road, in the Santa Clara
Valley, crept slowly under the beating heat of a July sun. The dust
rolled in clouds over the gaudy wagons of the menagerie. The outer
doors of the cages had been opened to give access of air to the pantin