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The Two Brothers

CHAPTER XI
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If you can get more, the surplus will be welcome.

Keep the interesting rodents without food; for it is essential that the delightful little beasts be ravenous with hunger.

Please observe that I will accept both house-mice and field-mice as rats.

If we multiply twenty-two by twenty, we shall have four hundred; four hundred accomplices let loose in the old church of the Capuchins, where Fario has stored all his grain, will consume a not insignificant quantity! But be lively about it! There's no time to lose.
Fario is to deliver most of the grain to his customers in a week or so; and I am determined that that Spaniard shall find a terrible deficit.
Gentlemen, I have not the merit of this invention," continued Max, observing the signs of general admiration.

"Render to Caesar that which is Caesar's, and to God that which is God's.


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