Excerpt from The Conspiracy There are some queer fish in New York, queer human fish that swim and wriggle in the great pool of life that spreads from shore to shore of Manhattan. They come seldom to the surface, and When they do it is only to blink and dive beneath again to seek their own familiar haunts. They are a school by themselves, these queer fish; book-worms, savants, inventors, philosophers, SO buried in their own thoughts and pursuits that they neither know nor see how time and progress gradually change them, at least in outward appearance, into veritable specimens for museums.

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