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THE PERFECT TRIBUTE
prise that in the strange lawyer's eyes were tears. But the wounded man did not notice.
"It will live, that speech. Fifty years from now American school-boys will be learning it as part of their education. It is not merely my opinion," he went on. "Warrington says the whole country is ringing with it. And you haven't read it? And your name's Lincoln? Warry, boy, where's the paper Nellie left? I'll read the speech to Mr. Lincoln myself."
The boy had sprung to his feet and across the room, and had lifted a folded newspaper from the table. "Let me read it, Carter—it might tire you."
The giant figure which had crouched, elbows on knees, in the
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