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Verner’s Pride

CHAPTER XXII
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We will have no underhanded truck system introduced on the Verner estate." "You'd like to ruin poor Peckaby, I suppose, sir!" "I have nothing to do with Peckaby.

If public rumour is to be credited, the business is not Peckaby's, but yours--" "Them that says it is a pack of liars!" burst forth Roy.
"Possibly.

I say I have nothing to do with that.

Peckaby--" Lionel's voice faltered.

An awful pain--a pain, the like of which, for acute violence, he had never felt--had struck him in the head.


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