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? ? ? ? 'Do you feed yourself, or does some one else feed you?'

? ? ? ? 'I'm afraid some one else has fed me most of my life,' she laughed, trying bravely to enter into the spirit of his quizzing, though I could see a terror dawning and growing in her eyes as she watched Wolf Larsen.

? ? ? ? 'And I suppose some one else makes your bed for you?'

? ? ? ? 'I have made beds,' she replied.

? ? ? ? 'Very often?'

? ? ? ? She shook her head with mock ruefulness.

? ? ? ? 'Do you know what they do to poor men in the States who, like you, do not work for their living?'

? ? ? ? 'I am very ignorant,' she pleaded. 'What do they do to the poor men who are like me?'

? ? ? ? 'They send them to jail. The crime of not earning a living, in their case, is called vagrancy. If I were Mr. Van Weyden, who harps eternally on questions of right and wrong, I'd ask, By what right do you live when you do nothing to deserve living?'

? ? ? ? 'But as you are not Mr.


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