It happened far too late to be a fashionable mugging. Practically everybody the middle-aged householder knew had long since been assaulted or purse-snatched, or broken and entered in one way or another. People rarely bothered to talk about muggings at dinner parties any more. Truth to tell, the householder, who often worked late in the city, had grown a bit smug about being spared so long. He always walked fast and purposefully. He was in pretty good shape. And he liked to think that he had acquired from a boyhood in the country some...
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