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The President

CHAPTER XV
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You should find it expressing ecstasy in sublimation--you should discover it wearing the twin to that look which mounted the brow of Mr.Bayard as he devoured the Hanway report.
"Beautiful!" he whispered when he had finished.
Then he fell silent, prisoner to himself, walled in with his own thoughts.

A moment passed and the clouds rolled away; the delight faded, and this artist among gamblers for whom speculation possessed harmony and color and form, and whose life had been an Odyssey of Stocks, recovered the practical.
"It is as I surmised," he said, with a sigh of content.

"They will fall upon Northern Consolidated bear-fashion--all claw and tooth.

This report finds the road to be a thief for millions; and a debtor for millions upon that.

The Attorney General must collect.


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