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The President

CHAPTER XXI
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I am told it will provide you an annual income of full fifteen thousand dollars for the balance of your life." Mr.Sands did not give way to the least excitement, but said that he was glad.

He would hereafter avoid labor, and devote himself to the elevation of the workingman as represented in the union of printers.

It is perhaps as well to set forth in this place that Mr.Sands adhered most nobly to his resolution.

In the years that followed he flourished the terror of publishers and master-printers, advising many strikes for shorter hours and a longer wage, never failing from his personal fisc to furnish what halls and beer the exigencies of each strike made necessary, and wanting which no great industrial movement can survive.
Word of the coming wedding got about, and the gossipy murmur of it reached the ears of Storri.

The news stirred his savage nature to the dregs.
"June, the first!" sneered Storri, as he paced his apartment in furious soliloquy.


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