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CHAPTER THREE--THRIFT--AND THE CHILD
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He had another name, but that's pure luck--his own name of de Barral which he did not invent.

I don't think that a mere Jones or Brown could have fished out from the depths of the Incredible such a colossal manifestation of human folly as that man did.

But it may be that I am underestimating the alacrity of human folly in rising to the bait.

No doubt I am.

The greed of that absurd monster is incalculable, unfathomable, inconceivable.


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