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A Man for the Ages

CHAPTER I
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A brain that has treated its owner as shameful as mine has treated me should be compelled to do its own thinkin' er die.

I've invented some things that may sell.

I've been hopin' my luck would turn." "It'll turn when you turn it," Samson assured him.
Brimstead thoughtfully scuffed the sand with his bare foot.

In half a moment he stepped to the wheel and imparted this secret: "Say, mister, if you've any more doubt o' my mental condition, I'm goin' to tell ye that they've discovered valuable ore in my land two miles back o' this road, an' I'm hopin' to make a fortune.

Don't that prove my case ?" "Any man that puts his faith in the bowels of the earth can have my vote," said Samson.
Brimstead leaned close to Samson's ear and said in a tone scarcely audible: "My brother Robert has his own idiot asylum.


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