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The Wrecker

CHAPTER III
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In later days (not of course upon this first occasion) I would sometimes ask him why; and he had his answer pat.

"To build up the type!" he would cry.

"We're all committed to that; we're all under bond to fulfil the American Type! Loudon, the hope of the world is there.

If we fail, like these old feudal monarchies, what is left ?" The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad's ambition; it was insusceptible of expansion, he explained, it was not truly modern; and by a sudden conversion of front, he became a railroad-scalper.

The principles of this trade I never clearly understood; but its essence appears to be to cheat the railroads out of their due fare.


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