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Squiers probably registered 'em all right, and they'll probably vote for Hopkins." "Wait a moment, sir!" cried Erastus, as Uncle John was turning away. "That speech demands an explanation, and I mean to have it." "Oh, you do? Well, I don't object.
You may not know it, but Squiers has registered sixty-six non-voters, and I want to know whether you're prepared to give half of them to Forbes, or mean to keep them all for yourself." "If Squiers has made false registrations he must stand the consequences. I want you to understand, sir, that I do not countenance any underhand dealing." "Then it's all off? You won't vote the mill hands ?" "Not a man shall vote who is not properly registered." "I'm glad to hear it, Mr.Hopkins.Perhaps you can get that twenty-five hundred back.
I don't think Squiers has cashed the check yet." The Honorable Erastus gave a roar like a wild bull, but Uncle John had walked quietly out and climbed into his buggy.
He looked back, and seeing Mr.Hopkins's scowling face at the window returned a pleasant smile as he drove away. Mr.Watson had just finished his interview with the dentist when Uncle John picked him up at the corner.
The lawyer had accomplished more than the other two, for he had secured a paper exonerating Lucy Rogers and another incriminating the Honorable Erastus Hopkins, as well as the sixty dollars paid by Tom Gates.
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