Against Odds: A Detective Story Of The World’s Fair
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Chapter 1. ‘Chicargo Gits My Money‘
_ CHAPTER I. ‘CHICARGO GITS MY MONEY‘
‘Eureka!‘
It was I, Carl Masters, of the secret service, so called, who uttered this exclamation, although not a person of the exclamatory school; and small wonder, for I was standing beneath the dome of the Administration Building, and I had but that hour arrived at the World‘s Fair.
I was not there as a sight-seer, not on pleasure bent, and even those first moments of arrival, I knew well, were not to be wasted.
I had come hither straight from the Terminal Station, seeking this stately keystone to the great Fair, not to steep my senses and fill my eyes with beauty in myriad forms, but to seek out the great man whose masterful hand was to create for me the passport which was to be my ‘open sesame‘ to all within this fair White City‘s walls; but when I stood beneath that lofty double dome and looked about me, I forgot all but the beauty all around, and gazed upon the noble rotunda through the wester
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