The Confidence-Man - Opening

Chapter I

A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI

AT SUNRISE on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis.

HARRISON HAYFORD

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