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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 9: Two Offers
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Now we want to know exactly what you are thinking of doing." "I am thinking of getting work, sir," Reuben said, "at my own trade." "Well, my lad, I don't think you will make much at that.

There are mills, of course, but not a great many of them; and I fancy you would find it difficult to get anything like regular work.

The distances here are tremendous, and you would spend the money you made, in one job, in looking out for another.
"That is the first view of the case.

The second is, that neither Captain Wilson nor I mean to let you try it.

You have saved my daughter's life, and I am not going to let the man who did that tramp about the country, looking for a day's work.


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