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UNDER HIS THUMB. CHAPTER I. THE PRINTING-HOUSE TRAGEDY. The sharp report of a pistol rang through the great printing-house of Blain & Waldron. And almost simultaneously a loud, clear voice shouted: “Waldron has killed himself !’’ Not less than fifty of the employees of the establish- ment heard the pistol shot, and half that number heard and understood the cry. As this fact has an important bearing upon the oreat mystery which was speedily to be developed, the reader will please bear it in mind. -. None heard the sounds more distinctly than Steve Lawton, a young apprentice, who chanced at the moment to be “‘sorting pi’’ in an apartment directly over the counting-room. The youngster dropped the handful of type that he held at the instant, and darted toward the stair- way. At the foot of the stairs he collided with George Dyer, the foreman of one of the composing-rooms, cS €oO Nn < (E(oy naylicel exeye)