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In spite of the fact that Miles Fallon
had spent many of his thirty-one years
in running about the country, he had
received an average education. That
is, he had struggled through college,—"without,"
as he said, "having been
branded A.B. or A.M.,"—and had subsequently
taken a brief post-graduate
course in what he called "Society 1."
Subsequently, and perhaps as a protest
against what he learned in that
course, he went to Arizona and mingled
with the alkali and adobe. Besides
supplying him with material for
the novels which had made him well
known, his years in the West and
