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The Octopus

CHAPTER V
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Talk to ME.

I know better." The most abiding impression that Genslinger's editorial made upon him was, that possibly the "Mercury" was not subsidised by the corporation after all.

If it was; Genslinger would not have been led into making his mistake as to the value of the land.

He would have known that the railroad was under contract to sell at two dollars and a half an acre, and not only this, but that when the land was put upon the market, it was to be offered to the present holders first of all.

Annixter called to mind the explicit terms of the agreement between himself and the railroad, and dismissed the matter from his mind.


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