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.Tack Edwards was called "the Jap"' by his fellow bank clerks because of if his raven-black hair, small, dark eyes and swarthy complexion. Coming from lunch, one summer day, he step- .1 ped gingerly across the dusty cobblestones, dodged a ponderous electric truck, was warned off the street car track by the clanging of a gong, made a detour to pass a stationary automobile, pulled open a brass-bound, beveled glass door and mounted the flight of steps that led to the main iloor of the bank. On reaching his department Edwards, sauntered to his desk.
"Hello, bunch," he called, in lifeless $ tones to several young men who were grouped around an adding machine |i
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