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...RUNAWAY???Floyd Dell?Doran ($2). Michael Shenstone had a quarrel with respectability, and when for 13 years it had seared his wanderlustful soul, he bolted, leaving wife and child to Beaumont's communal pity. Seventeen years he spent raping the beautiful heads of Chinese idols and vagabonding in the Orient. At last he returned with a gay malacca stick, a piquant cloak and no repentance in his heart, only a desire to have a look at his daughter. In the end respectability made him hers through the romance of father love, and the accident of discovering a defaulter, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brute in Purple* | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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