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The Gentleman From Indiana

CHAPTER XVIII
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Strangers come every day; oil has lubricated every commercial joint.

Contracts have been let for three new brick business buildings to be erected on the east side of the Square.

The value of your Main Street frontage will have doubled by December, and possibly you may see fit to tear away the present building and put up another, instead; the investment might be profitable.

The 'Herald' could find room on the second and third floors, and the first could be let to stores.
"I regret that you find your copy of the paper for the 29th overlooked in the mail and that your messenger could find none for you at the newspaper offices in Rouen.

Mr.Schofield was given directions in regard to supplying you with the missing issue at once.
"I fear that you may have had difficulty in deciphering some of my former missives, as I was unfamiliar with the typewriter when I took charge of the 'Herald'; however, I trust that you find my later letters more legible.
"The McCune people are not worrying us; we are sure to defeat them.


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