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PART II--IN THE FLOOD
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Awfully blue, too, when that bill of sale came, for we thought you'd been wasting your money on US.

Reckoned we oughtn't to take it, but send it straight back to you.
Messenger gone! Then Demorest reckoned as it was done it couldn't be undone, and we ought to make just one 'prospect' on the claim, and strike a single stroke for you.

And there it is.

And there's more on the hillside." "But it isn't MINE! It isn't YOURS! It's Carter's.

I never had the money to pay for it--and I haven't got it now." "But you gave the note--and it is not due for thirty days." A recollection flashed upon Barker.


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