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Ulysses

thousands and then complete oblivion because it was
twenty odd years. Highly unlikely of course there was
even a shadow of truth in the stones and, even supposing,
he thought a return highly inadvisable, all things

considered. Something evidently riled them in his death.
Either he petered out too tamely of acute pneumonia just
when his various different political arrangements were
nearing completion or whether it transpired he owed his
death to his having neglected to change his boots and
clothes-after a wetting when a cold resulted and failing to
consult a specialist he being confined to his room till he
eventually died of it amid widespread regret before a
fortnight was at an end or quite possibly they were
distressed to find the job was taken out of their hands. Of
course nobody being acquainted with his movements even
before there was absolutely no clue as to his whereabouts
which were decidedly of the Alice, where art thou order
even prior to his starting to go under several aliases such as
Fox and Stewart so the remark which emanated from
friend cabby might be within the bounds of possibility.
Naturally then it would prey on his mind as a born leader
of men which undoubtedly he was and a commanding
figure, a sixfooter or at any rate five feet ten or eleven in
his stockinged feet, whereas Messrs So and So who,

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