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The American Claimant

CHAPTER XIX
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What is it ?" "Stock him--of course." "Well, I should never have thought of that." "Because you are not a financier.

Say he has committed a thousand crimes.

Certainly that's a low estimate.

By the look of him, even in his unfinished condition, he has committed all of a million.

But call it only a thousand to be perfectly safe; five thousand reward, multiplied by a thousand, gives us a dead sure cash basis of--what?
Five million dollars!" "Wait--let me get my breath." "And the property indestructible.


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