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The Brass Bowl
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Title: The Brass Bowl
Author: Louis Joseph Vance
Release Date: August, 2005 [EBook #8741] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on August 6, 2003]
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THE BRASS BOWL
BY LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
1907
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In the dull hot dusk of a summer's day a green touring-car, swinging out of the East Drive, pulled up smartly, trembling, at the edge of the Fifty-ninth Street car-tracks, then more sedately, under the dispassionate but watchful eye of a mounted member of the Traffic Squad, lurched across the Plaza and merged itself in the press of ve