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Early next morning Lance, lying wakeful on his bed, heard the newspaper-truck speed through the street. Five o'clock. He knew that a bundle of papers had been dropped at the stand on the corner, but he dared not venture out to get one. Such unusual eagerness to read the news might arouse somebody's suspicion.
He forced himself to remain in his room until seven, when plenty of other people were moving in the street. Then he went out, bought his paper and, bringing it back to his room, applied himself to it with a feverish intensity. He read: