Clarenden

"Clarenden," the young Bostonian began, "you got away from that drunken mob at Independence with your children, your mules, and your big Daniel

Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

Then all of a sudden Parker remembers that a man in a brown derby, with a coat turned inside out over his arm, who seemed to be in a hurry about something, came into the Clarenden along with him, and that a minute later in that Chinese room the same fellow butts into him.

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It might be that the Clarenden was being watched, along with the other public resorts in the immediate vicinity of where the homicide had been committed.

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Nothing remained to be disposed of or accounted for save the pasteboard square that represented the coat and hat left behind at the Clarenden.

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Peering through the glass he watched the entrance to the Clarenden.

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You had a good prospect of getting out of town before daylight, but you chucked your chance when you came back to the Clarenden a little while ago.

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Since he had cleared out from the Clarenden without mishap it was scarcely to be figured that anyone would or could now be shadowing him.

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Exulting inwardly over the present development and working fast, he stripped off his clothing down to his shoes and his undergarments -- first, though, emptying his own pockets of the money they contained, both bills and silver, and of sundry personal belongings, such as a small pocketknife, a fountain pen, a condensed railway guide and the slip of pasteboard that represented the hat and coat left behind at the Clarenden.

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It might even be that back in the Clarenden he would encounter the real Parker face to face.

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So I goes into the Clarenden and has a rarebit and a bottle of beer with my brother-in-law and the others.

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