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The Octopus

CHAPTER I
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His heart went out to the people, and his groping hand met that of a slovenly little Dutchman, whom it was impossible to consider seriously.

He searched for the True Romance, and, in the end, found grain rates and unjust freight tariffs.
"But the stuff is HERE," he muttered, as he sent his wheel rumbling across the bridge over Broderson Creek.

"The romance, the real romance, is here somewhere.

I'll get hold of it yet." He shot a glance about him as if in search of the inspiration.

By now he was not quite half way across the northern and narrowest corner of Los Muertos, at this point some eight miles wide.


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