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THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS
hypothesis that I was a poor young man with a wife and large family.
My first discovery was that empty houses were few and far between. So far between, in fact, that though I walked miles in irregular circles over a large area, I still remained between. Not one
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A House to Let. |
empty house could I find—a conclusive proof that the district was 'saturated.'
It being plain that as a poor young man with a family I could rent no houses at all in this most undesirable region, I next looked for rooms, unfurnished rooms, in which I could store my wife
