File: The Shock (1923).webm
Author: Lambert Hillyer
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Year: 1923
PD: PD/US|1969
Note: In 1906, Wilse Dilling, a crippled gangster living in the savage streets of Chinatown, receives a coded message to go to the home of his boss, Ann Cardington, known as Queen Anne, a powerful crime boss feared in the underworld. When Wilse meets with her, she sends him to the town of Fallbrook, where he is to await her instructions in dealing with a former lover of hers, a banker named Micha Hadley, who had betrayed her. Dilling is to pose as a telegraph operator in his effort to watch the banker. He finds a good friend in Hadley's daughter Gertrude, with whom he falls in love. Gertrude, however, is engaged to Jack Cooper.<br><br>''The Shock'' is based on the short story "[[The Pit of the Golden Dragon]]" by [[Author:William Dudley Pelley|William Dudley Pelley]].
Cat: Drama film, Films based on books, Films with historical settings
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Carl Laemmle<br>offers{{c|{{xxxx-larger|{{sc|Lon Chaney}}}}<br>''IN''<br>{{xxxx-larger|{{sc|''The Shock''}}}}}}{{Side by side
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{{c|''Story by''<br>WILLIAM D. PELLEY<br><br>''Directed by''<br>LAMBERT HILLYER}}
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Delving into the ever dimming records of yesterday, a lurid page arrests the eye. Chinatown---street of crime---of fear---of hate---of mystery---
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{{xx-smaller|MANDARIN CAFE}}
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---and the Mandarin Cafe---a whirlpool of vice and intrigue.
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{{c|"Inhale it, you boob!"}}
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Wilse Dilling was something of a mystery, even to Chinatown---he baffled the police, though he was listed on a page-long record at headquarters as "dangerous."{{right|...LON CHANEY}}
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{{c|Wilse}}
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{{c|Wilse go to Queen Ann's house right away.}}
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{{c|O K}}
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In those days, overlooking the Oriental Quarter, yet linked to it by secret, malevolent forces, there stood a house of mystery.
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And guiding its destinies, a woman---a woman known through-out the underworld as "Queen Ann."{{right|...Christine Mayo}}
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{{c|"Wilse, you leave immediately for Fallbrook. I've placed you in the telegraph office there."}}
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{{c|"Never mind what for! All you have to do is make friends, watch your step—and keep your eyes open."}}
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{{c|"When I'm ready to use you, I'll let you know, by wire."}}
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05:09
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Not so many miles from this seething hotbed of crime, yet seemingly in another world, nestled the little town of Fallbrook.
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Into this world came the dope-peddler, safe-cracker, gun-man....Wilse Dilling, the cripple---and in the weeks of waiting, something happened to him.
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Call it the magic of flowers, the spell of sunshine; explain it as you will....the fact remained that he was different---the new life made the cesspool of poppy-land seem very far away.
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Perhaps it was the influence of a good woman---Gertrude Hadley had paused to pity, and remained his teacher,...and first real friend.{{right|...Virginia Valli}}
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His visits to Gertrude Hadley were treasured hours in the life of Wilse Dilling---the only real happiness he had ever known.
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07:08
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{{c|"Here I am, and just bursting with questions!"}}
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07:42
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"You don't know how much your friendship means to me, Miss Gertrude - - most people haven't much use for cripples."
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07:57
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{{c|"How often have I told you not to talk that way! A handicap is often an asset--few people ever amount to anything without them."}}
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08:12
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{{c|"There are other things! Miss Gertrude, if you knew what I've been...what I've done, you wouldn't even talk to me."}}
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08:28
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{{c|"Yes I would! It isn't what you were, but what you <u>are,</u> that counts!"}}
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"You mean a man's past doesn't count?—that there's always a chance—a chance to be something....different?"
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{{c|"We can be anything we want—if the thought is right, and the will is behind the thought."}}
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{{c|"In spite of everything?"}}
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09:10
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{{c|"What do you mean by...everything?"}}
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09:17
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{{c|"I'm a cripple—do you believe any amount of thinking can make me anything else?"}}
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09:28
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{{c|"Stranger things have happened—life without hope would be unbearable."}}
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09:35
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{{c|"I'd give half my life, if I could believe—what you believe."}}
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{{c|"Wait for me—just a minute—I have something that will help you—I <u>know</u> it will!"}}
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{{c|{{smaller|RIGHT<br>THOUGHTS}}}}
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10:22
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{{c|"My mother gave me this [[Bible]] before she died! It's my best friend."}}
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{{c|"Somewhere in these pages I am sure you will find answers for every question."}}
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{{c|{{xx-smaller|[[Bible|HOLY<br>BIBLE]]}}}}
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{{c|"Just remember this—anything you wish can be accomplished, if the thought is right, and the will is behind it."}}
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{{c|"It sounds too good to be true—but I'm going to try—to believe."}}
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{{c|{{smaller|BANK}}}}
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Gertrude's father, Micha Hadley, was the town's leading banker and most respected citizen{{right|...William Welsh}}
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{{c|"Why father, you look worried—is anything wrong?"}}
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"I intended to have lunch with you, but I got started late and Wilse Dilling came over to have a little chat."
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{{c|"You're spending too much time with him—he's not worth it, and somehow I—I don't like him."}}
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"Oh father! If you really knew him; realized how like a child he is...and how sincere, you wouldn't talk that way!"
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{{c|"Well, have your own way, my dear—and now, run along, and stop worrying about your old father."}}
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{{c|{{di|I}}n the days that followed - -}}
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Jack Cooper, whose father owned the town's "general store."{{right|...Jack Mower}}
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{{c|"I came to return your Bible."}}
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{{c|"I thought it was helping, but....I guess I was wrong."}}
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{{c|"I'm going to tell you a secret! I'm engaged to marry Mr. Cooper—we've known each other for years."}}
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{{c|"Aren't you glad of it, Mr. Dilling?"}}
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{{c|"My best wishes, Miss Gertrude----"}}
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{{c|"I hope you will be very, very happy."}}
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{{c|"Cooper, if this Book is true; if there are such persons as Angels....<u>she</u> is one."}}
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{{c|"No man living is good enough for her, but if you treat her right, I'll always be behind you."}}
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{{c|"But if you don't, there's no power on {{SIC|earth|Earth that}} can save you from me!"}}
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That night, as usual, lights glowed behind the locked door and drawn curtains of the Hadley bank.
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{{c|{{x-smaller|BANK}}}}
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{{c|"How does it seem to be at the end of your rope?—to know you're a thief....a thief who's robbed his own bank—for a woman!"}}
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{{c|"My God! You don't mean you're going to....to turn me up!"}}
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{{c|"I do--and have! But don't try to make a get-away--I've had a man in Fallbrook for weeks, and tonight he's received his orders."}}
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{{c|"A bank-examiner'll be there tomorrow, and when they've put you where you once put me...a prison cell—think of me....you'll have plenty of time!"}}
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{{c|The hand of "Queen Ann" was far reaching, cruel, ruthless, sparing no one - - and Wilse Dilling found himself torn between the woman he loved and the woman he feared.}}
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{{c|{{smaller|{{cursive|''To my darling<br>Gertrude<br>From<br>Mother''}}}}}}
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{{c|"It's important, Mr. Hadley—and we mustn't be seen together."}}
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{{c|"Mr. Hadley, are you all right with the bank?"}}
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{{c|"How dare you ask me a question like that! If that's all you have to say, I'm not interested."}}
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{{c|"Wait! I work for Ann Cardington, and ten minutes ago I got a wire from her, ordering me to----"}}
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{{c|"I'm worried about father—he's been at the bank every night!"}}
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{{c|"I know it sounds silly, but I must go down to the bank—I just <u>feel</u> that everything isn't right."}}
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{{c|"Better break that engagement, son—things don't look as good as they did."}}
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{{c|"---she'll be just like you for the rest of her life."}}
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{{c|"Unless some surgeon performs a miracle---"}}
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{{c|"God....Doctor! Not like me!"}}
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{{c|{{li|A}}fterwards, the realization came to Hadley that in Wilse Dilling's friendship he might find a way out.}}
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{{c|"I must talk to you because I know what you did and I know you did it to save me."}}
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{{c|"I came to explain about Ann Cardington."}}
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{{c|"We were to be married—I found out who and what she was—on my testimony they sent her to prison, vowing vengeance on me and mine."}}
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{{c|"Ten years ago I found myself entangled in a political graft—tricked by Ann Cardington—my signature on documents that would send me to prison."}}
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{{c|"For Gertrude's sake, I have paid for silence—paid and paid and paid—even with what was not mine to pay."}}
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{{c|"No one will ever know! That's why I blew up the bank."}}
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{{c|"But my signatures—I live in fear that some day, she'll use them against my daughter!"}}
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{{c|"Your daughter? I'd give my life to save Miss Gertrude a single tear - - where are those signatures?"}}
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{{c|"Hidden in her home—it's no use, Dilling, I've tried to get them."}}
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{{c|"For your daughter's sake, Mr. Hadley, don't leave this town—you leave Ann Cardington to me and everything will be all right."}}
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{{c|HOLD OUT HOPE FOR BANKER'S DAUGHTER}}Victim of Fallbrook bomb tragedy has chance for complete recovery through operation, declares famous surgeon.{{rule|5em}}{{smaller|{{center inline|MICHA HADLEY FACES RUIN}}{{rule|3em}}Investigators believe only few thousand dollars can be salvaged from wreck. Police fail to find dynamiters.}}
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{{c|"We'll get the low-down on this from Wilse Dilling—I've sent for him to come back."}}
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Upon his return, Ann Cardington had treated Wilse Dilling with a smile---but all the underworld knew that Queen Ann's smile was more dangerous than her frown.
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"Doesn't it strike you as odd—that Hadley's bank was wrecked the very night the bank-examiner was due?"
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"You're sure all the evidence against him was destroyed?"
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{{c|"The papers said his daughter is going to recover."}}
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"They operated on her here in town—it was a big success."
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{{c|"You seem very happy about it."}}
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{{c|"She was very kind to me."}}
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{{c|"Someone saved Hadley from going to prison, and I'm rather glad — for now I'll make him suffer worse...through his daughter."}}
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"With the hold I've got on Hadley, we'll make him wish he never had a daughter, Wilse."
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While Gertrude Hadley, in a hospital overlooking the bay, had emerged from the Valley of Darkness into the Realm of Material Things.
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Somewhere in Ann Cardington's house, Banker Hadley's signature was hidden---but where?
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Meanwhile, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel---
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{{c|"I've had bad news from father. It means that we - - -"}}
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{{c|"You mean you wish to break our engagement?"}}
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{{c|"Let's be practical—we can't live on love—can we?"}}
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"Mr. Cooper, I want you to meet me at the Mandarin Cafe after midnight—it's very important."
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{{c|"It's about Miss Hadley—and if you don't come, God help you!"}}
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{{c|"Don't interfere with him—it couldn't have worked better, had I planned it myself."}}
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{{c|In the Mandarin Cafe—}}
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For two hours, Dilling has been trying to nerve Cooper into entering the House of Mystery.
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{{c|"You've got to reach that box for me....there's no one else I can trust."}}
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{{c|"I'm done! I'm not going to marry her anyway!"}}
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{{c|"You yellow sneak! But get this — she kissed you once, and tonight, you're going to pay for that kiss!"}}
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{{c|"The other night, I told you I'd make Hadley wish he'd never had a daughter."}}
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{{c|"What's that got to do with him?"}}
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{{c|"He is going to call her down here."}}
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{{c|"Call up that girl and tell her we'll send a cab for her."}}
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{{c|"Don't do it...God, man...don't let her get into their clutches."}}
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"Tell her Wilse Dilling has been hurt in an accident; that he wants to see her. We'll send a cab."
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"Gertrude, I'm down at the Mandarin. Wilse Dilling is hurt — he wants to see you."
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{{c|"We'll send a cab for you."}}
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"Your father ruined my life—he's been paying for it, year by year! Thanks to Wilse Dilling, he got away from me — but <u>through</u> Wilse Dilling, I've got...you!"
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{{c|"You thought you were double-crossing me, Wilse! Well, take a last look at your pretty lady....you'll never see her again."}}
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"Take her up to the house - - hold her there until I come."
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At that moment, as if in answer to his prayer, the hand of Providence interfered---
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{{c|{{xx-smaller|MANDARIN CAFE}}}}
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Among the hundreds of bruised and broken things, dragged from the smoking horror of yesterday, was Wilse Dilling, and after weeks of convalescence---
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{{c|"It's a beautiful view, from the railing."}}
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{{c|"Shall I wheel you over there?"}}
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{{c|"I like the shade—I'll wait for you here."}}
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