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The Gilded Age
Part 1.

CHAPTER VIII
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You'll see.

Now there's an operation in corn that looks well.

Some New York men are trying to get me to go into it--buy up all the growing crops and just boss the market when they mature--ah I tell you it's a great thing.

And it only costs a trifle; two millions or two and a half will do it.

I haven't exactly promised yet--there's no hurry--the more indifferent I seem, you know, the more anxious those fellows will get.


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