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The Octopus

CHAPTER II
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Oh, if I could wake 'em up.

There's not only Shelgrim, but there's others.

All the magnates, all the butchers, all the blood-suckers, by the thousands.

Their day will come, by God, it will." By now, the ex-engineer and the bar-keeper had retired to the saloon back of the grocery to talk over the details of this new outrage.

Dyke, still a little dazed, sat down by one of the tables, preoccupied, saying but little, and Caraher as a matter of course set the whiskey bottle at his elbow.
It happened that at this same moment, Presley, returning to Los Muertos from Bonneville, his pockets full of mail, stopped in at the grocery to buy some black lead for his bicycle.


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