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The Gilded Age
Part 6.

CHAPTER L
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I shall find it some day.

I know it.

If I can only keep the land till I make money enough to try again." Philip took from his pocket a map of the anthracite coal region, and pointed out the position of the Ilium mountain which he had begun to tunnel.
"Doesn't it look like it ?" "It certainly does," said the Squire, very much interested.

It is not unusual for a quiet country gentleman to be more taken with such a venture than a speculator who, has had more experience in its uncertainty.

It was astonishing how many New England clergymen, in the time of the petroleum excitement, took chances in oil.


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