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Tales of the City Room

watching the little scene with polite interest. He had to content himself with a very tender pressure of the hand he held in his own.

"I—I think I 'll take the assignment," Miss Van Dyke whispered shyly.

For the first time since Tammany's return to power, the cloud lifted from the brow of Matthews.

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