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Scan 315
The yellow violin, 1902
16 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 299. See the scan on archive.org.
1himself that he might extinguish the memory of that hour.
3Presently the old sweet tones rolled out, the tenor that but for the man's love for strong drink would have made him the idol of the world.
5The Professor sat as one under a spell. An undersized man had seated himself at the same table. The tall glass of smoking lemonade stood untouched. He was listening to that marvelous voice.
7Once he leaned over to speak with the undersized man, who was evidently a habitue of the place.
9"Is that the original John Craik—the one that sang here some ten years ago?" he asked in a low voice.
11"The same Johnny, you bet," was the answer—"Same Johnny, same voice. Wonderful how he keeps it. Ever heard it before?"
13"Yes," said the Professor, "but not—I mean—there was a difference. I never noticed—the scar."
15"No, that came of being laid out for dead," the man said, leisurely fingering the straws in a glass dish beside him. "He was took up for dead, and laid for dead in the orspital two days. It come of
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