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LIONEL CLARENCE ESCAPES
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the boy, he ventured the remark that Lonely had a streak of yellow in him.

"The yellow that is sometimes almost gold!" he added to himself, as an afterthought. Then he reached in under his coat-tails to that reputedly inexhaustible pocket from which came most of Chamboro's lemondrops and horehound lozenges.