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A CAPILLARY CRIME
AND OTHER STORIES

BY
F.   D.   M I L L E T


ILLUSTRATED





NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
1892



Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.
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All rights reserved.

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
A CAPILLARY CRIME	3
YATIL	87
TEDESCO’S RUBINA	129
MEDUSA’S HEAD	165
THE FOURTH WAITS	191
THE BUSH	269

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A CAPILLARY CRIME

NEAR the summit of the hill in the Quartier Montmartre, Paris, is alittle street in which the grass grows between the paving-stones, as inthe avenues of some dead old Italian city. Tall buildings border it forabout one third its length, and the walls of tiny gardens, belonging tohouses on adjacent streets, occupy the rest of its extent. It is apopulous thoroughfare, but no wheels pass through it, for the very goodreason that near the upper end it suddenly takes a short turn, andshoots up the hill at an incline too steep for a horse to climb. Theregular morning refuse cart, and on rare occasions a public carriage,venture a short distance into the lower part of the street, and eventhese, on wet, slippery days, do not pass the door of the first{4} house.Scarcely two minutes’ walk from the busy exterior boulevards, thislittle corner of the great city is as quiet as a village nearly all daylong. Early in the morning the sidewalks clatter with the shoes ofw

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