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IN THE MUSÉE

gether—no one knows where. Only the Professor remains—an old rounder on the Bowery, gray and shabby, sleeping in doss-houses and hawking a china cement—and he, as the chief victim of this tragedy in fakirdom, is still too proud for pity and too absurd for anything else.