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The Unclassed

CHAPTER XII
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"You! I've been wondering where you were to be found." The visitor held out his hand, and Abraham, though he did not rise, smiled not unpleasantly as he gave his own.
"You wanted to see me ?" Waymark asked.
"Well, yes.

I suppose you've come about the mines." "Mines?
What mines ?" "Oh, then you haven't come about them.

You didn't know the Llwg Valley people have begun to pay a dividend ?" Waymark remembered that one of his father's unfortunate speculations had been the purchase of certain shares in some Welsh mines.

The money thus invested had remained, for the last nine years, wholly unproductive.

Mr.Woodstock explained that things were looking up with the company in question, who had just declared a dividend of 4 per cent.


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