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Shavings

CHAPTER IV
19/23

When the captain could speak he asked: "And you mean to tell me that was the reason you wouldn't let the house again ?" "Er--why, yes." "I know better.

You didn't have any row with the Davidsons.

You couldn't row with anybody, anyhow; and besides the Colonel himself told me they would have taken the house the very next summer but you wouldn't rent it to 'em.

And you mean to say that yarn you've just spun was the reason ?" "Why--yes." "Rubbish! You've told me a dozen reasons afore, but I'm bound to say this is the most foolish yet.

All right, keep the real reason to yourself, then.


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