"[...] Thorpe abstracted the pistol, but although the long lonely road was favourable to crime, no road-agents appeared, and Hastings drove into the outskirts of the town with audibly expressed relief. "We're not far now," he added. "South Park is the place we're bound for; and, by the way, Mr. Randolph projected and owns most of it." A quarter of an hour later he drove into an oval enclosure trimmed with tall dark houses, so sombre in appearance that to the old Californian they must now, in their desertion and decay, seem ...
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"[...] Thorpe abstracted the pistol, but although the long lonely road was favourable to crime, no road-agents appeared, and Hastings drove into the outskirts of the town with audibly expressed relief. "We're not far now," he added. "South Park is the place we're bound for; and, by the way, Mr. Randolph projected and owns most of it." A quarter of an hour later he drove into an oval enclosure trimmed with tall dark houses, so sombre in appearance that to the old Californian they must now, in their desertion and decay, seem to have been grimly[...]."
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