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Risen from the Ranks

CHAPTER XXXI
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You are doing what you can to help fortune, and the end will be that fortune will help you." "I hope so, at any rate," said Harry, thoughtfully.

"I should like to fill an honorable position, and do some work by which I might be known in after years." "Why not?
The boys and young men of to-day are hereafter to fill the highest positions in the community and State.

Why may not the lot fall to you ?" "I will try, at any rate, to qualify myself.

Then if responsibilities come, I will try to discharge them." The conversation was here interrupted by the entrance of Mr.
Anderson, the editor of the "Gazette." He was not as well or strong as when we first made his acquaintance.

Then he seemed robust enough, but now he was thinner, and moved with slower gait.


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