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The Prodigal Pro Tem

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

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Excerpt from The Prodigal Pro TemH is pose was misleading. Barnes was proprietor Of nothing but himself. That was much or little as you happened to feel about it. TO himself it was enough to make him glad that he stood here to-day even with only a tri?e over ten round dol lars to his name. The position was Of his own choosing. He might have been secretary to the Acme Manufacturing co. Had he wished, instead of a painter of very good water-colors which as yet, however, had not found so ready a market as the cook-stoves.

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