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The Wrecker

CHAPTER XVI
10/32

Hurry up.

That's all you have to do.
"Yours ever, "J.

PINKERTON." The third was yet more altered:-- "My poor Loudon," it began, "I labour far into the night getting our affairs in order; you could not believe their vastness and complexity.
Douglas B.Longhurst said humorously that the receiver's work would be cut out for him.

I cannot deny that some of them have a speculative look.

God forbid a sensitive, refined spirit like yours should ever come face to face with a Commissioner in Bankruptcy; these men get all the sweetness knocked right out of them.


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