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LIKE one in a bad dream, Tad stood and stared at the placard. There was / something very ominous and startling, on coming for the first time into / this little town, to find his secret, his story there before him.
"Ay there it is! " he muttered. "My name and my clothes and all, so as / the perlice should be sure to catch me. Catch me? Ay, and so they may / yet."