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"Corruptibles far from Hadleyburg are--"
The house roared that one too. As the last note died, Jack Halliday's
voice rose high and clear, freighted with a final line--
"But the Symbols are here, you bet!"
That was sung, with booming enthusiasm. Then the happy house started in
at the beginning and sang the four lines through twice, with immense
swing and dash, and finished up with a crashing three-times-three and a
tiger for "Hadleyburg the Incorruptible and all Symbols of it which we
shall find worthy to receive the hall-mark to-night."
Then the shoutings at the Chair began again, all over the place:
"
Go on! go on! Read! read some more! Read all you've got!"
That's it--go on! We are winning eternal celebrity!"
"
A dozen men got up now and began to protest. They said that this farce
was the work of some abandoned joker, and was an insult to the whole
community. Without a doubt these signatures were all forgeries--
"
Sit down! sit down! Shut up! You are confessing. We'll find your
names in the lot."
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