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The Octopus

CHAPTER VI
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It's not right and God will punish them sooner or later." A little after this the two young men took themselves away, Dyke obligingly carrying them in the wagon as far as the gate that opened into the Quien Sabe ranch.

On the way, Presley referred to what Mrs.
Dyke had said and led Dyke, himself, to speak of the P.and S.W.
"Well," Dyke said, "it's like this, Mr.Presley.I, personally, haven't got the right to kick.

With you wheat-growing people I guess it's different, but hops, you see, don't count for much in the State.

It's such a little business that the road don't want to bother themselves to tax it.

It's the wheat growers that the road cinches.


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