Chapter 25—The Peregrinations of Harris T. Kymbale
If the Titburys and Commodore Urrican had reason to complain of the bad luck that followed them, it would seem that the chief reporter of the Tribune had a right to do so in some measure. To begin with, he had been sent to Niagara, in New York, made to pay a fine, and sent on immediately to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. And now he was obliged to come from South Carolina to Nebraska, and then go to Washington, at the north-western extremity of the States.
At Charleston, in South Carolina, where he had been so warmly welcomed, he had received the telegram on the 4th of June. The throw was ten by six and four, and that being doubled, took him from the twenty- second square to the forty-second.
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