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THE INTERNET WIRETAP ELECTRONIC EDITION OF

                        The Pit
                   A Story of Chicago

                           By
                      Frank Norris



                          1903



     Prepared by John Hamm <John_Hamm@MindLink.bc.ca>

             This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN,
                   released December 1993

     Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software
               donated by Caere Corporation.





                Dedicated to My Brother

                 Charles Tolman Norris

      In memory of certain lamentable tales of the
    bound (dining-room) table heroes; of the epic of
     the pewter platoons, and the romance-cycle of
    "Gaston Le Fox," which we invented, maintained,
      and found marvellous at a time when we both
                       were boys.




The PlT



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At eight o'clock in the inner vestibule of the
Auditorium Theatre by the window of the box office,
Laura Dearborn, her younger sister P . . .