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The Rise of Roscoe Paine

CHAPTER X
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Perhaps it was not his fault altogether." This was a trifle too much.

I refused to be charitable to Victor.
I heard from him, or of him, next day.

I met Captain Jed Dean at the bank, where I had called to see Taylor and inquire concerning how he and Nellie got home from the festival.

They had had a damp, though safe, journey, I learned, and the Methodist ladies had cleared seventy-four dollars and eighty-five cents from the entertainment.
Captain Jed entered the door as I left the cashier's gate.
"Ship ahoy, Ros!" hailed the captain, genially.

"Make port safe and sound after the flood?
I'd have swapped my horse and buggy for Noah's Ark that night and wouldn't have asked any boot neither.


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