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Michael Brother of Jerry

CHAPTER IX
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"It's beer I'm interested in.

You can chase your treasure, an' I don't care how long, just as long as I've got six quarts to open each day.

But I give you fair warning, sir, before I sign on: if the beer dries up, I'm goin' to get interested in what you're after.

Fair play is my motto." "Do you expect us to pay for your beer in addition ?" Simon Nishikanta demanded.
To Daughtry it was too good to be true.

Here, with the Jew healing the breach with the wheat-farmer whose agents still cabled money, was the time to take advantage.
"Sure, it's one of our agreements, sir.


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