CHAPTER I.
THE CROWLEY FAMILY.
Let me introduce the reader to the Crowley family, and when you have become acquainted with them bear well in mind that in this broad land of ours there are thousands upon thousands of families in a condition as deplorable, and some whose mercury line of debauchery has dropped to a point of miserable existence as yet unsounded by this family.
The Crowleys are all in tonight, except the father, and he is...
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