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The President

CHAPTER XIX
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I mean to repaint her from black to white, the moment we're out of sight from the shore.

I shall change her name, and have papers ready to match the change.

Oh, my friend, you will see that I"-- here Storri, who had studiously refrained from his usual bragging, exultant, staccato style of speech, and aped the plain and commonplace, almost forget himself; he was on the brink of giving his name, which thus far had been withheld.

He checked himself in time, and ended soberly by saying: "You will see that I have left nothing unconsidered." "Seven hours a night," ruminated London Bill, "and three nights: In considering everything, as you say, have you figured on how many trips your launch, bearing five hundred thousand dollars a trip, can make between shore an' ship ?" "The launch can make as many as twenty-one trips a night.

In three nights she ought to put more than thirty millions of dollars aboard the yacht.


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