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Greenmantle

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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'I was going to put you wise about that very thing.

When I started out I figured on some situation like this.

I argued that unless I had a very clear part with a big bluff in it I wouldn't get the confidences which I needed.
We've got to be at the heart of the show, taking a real hand and not just looking on.

So I settled I would be a big engineer--there was a time when there weren't many bigger in the United States than John S.
Blenkiron.

I talked large about what might be done in Mesopotamia in the way of washing the British down the river.


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