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The Admirable Tinker

CHAPTER SEVEN
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It's as easy as winking, once you know how to do it, and he says I understand it as well as he does.

It's all ready for the journey.

We've only got to get into it without waking him; and he sleeps like a log." "Mein Gott! Mein Gott! What a plan! I'm to fly in the air with a little boy! Oh, good gracious me! Good gracious me! What am I to do ?" And he stamped up and down, wringing his hands.
"It's that or the revolver," said Tinker sweetly.
The financier clutched at his hair and raved: fear and avarice, conflicting, tore at his vitals.

He owed his millions to no genuine force of character, but to luck, industry, and dishonesty.

In this great crisis of his life he was helpless.


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