CHAPTER IV
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It now became the wretched Dunkle's business to make two typed copies of the Archdeacon's manuscript, one for submission to some publisher, the other for his own reference, and this he proceeded to do. As we have seen, the story bulked a hundred and fifty thousand words. Dunkle was no virtuoso upon the keys of his Remington. The stuff, moreover, that he was required to copy was, in his opinion, so revolting that it was as much as he could do to hold himself two hours daily at his task. But, averaging 1,500 words a day, he got the thing done in a little over three
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