“I’d hate to live up here in summer, Bert,” said Ted Trafford, carefully easing his five feet and ten inches of tired, aching body to the window-seat and turning a perspiring face to the faint breeze that entered. “It must be hotter than Tophet.” “Oh, it’s high enough, all right! If I had to climb those three flights of stairs a dozen times a day――――”…
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