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The Red Planet

CHAPTER III
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When Oswald came of age I promised to allow him a thousand a year till I should be wiped out and he should come in.
Now I'm only fifty-five and as strong as a horse.

I can reasonably expect to live, say, another twenty years.

If Oswald were alive I should owe him, in prospectu, twenty thousand pounds.

He has given his life for his country.

His country, therefore, is his heir, comes in for his assets, his twenty years' allowance--" "And the whole of your estate at your death ?" I interposed.
"No.


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