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The Depot Master

CHAPTER I
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'You get ten for takin' me out and back.

If you ain't back on time 'tain't my fault.' "'Unless this craft breaks down,' I says.
"''Twon't break down.

I looked after that.

My motto is to look out for number one every time, and it's a mighty good motto.

At any rate, it's made my money for me.' "He went on, preachin' about business shrewdness and how it paid, and how mean and tricky in little deals we Rubes was, and yet we didn't appreciate how to manage big things, till I got kind of sick of it.
"'Look here, Mr.Williams,' says I, 'you know how I make my money--what little I do make--or you say you do.


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