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The Titan

CHAPTER III
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Just forget that you told me, and when you get your matrimonial affairs straightened out bring your wife out to see us." With these things completed Cowperwood took the train back to Philadelphia.
"Aileen," he said, when these two met again--she had come to the train to meet him--"I think the West is the answer for us.

I went up to Fargo and looked around up there, but I don't believe we want to go that far.

There's nothing but prairie-grass and Indians out in that country.

How'd you like to live in a board shanty, Aileen," he asked, banteringly, "with nothing but fried rattlesnakes and prairie-dogs for breakfast?
Do you think you could stand that ?" "Yes," she replied, gaily, hugging his arm, for they had entered a closed carriage; "I could stand it if you could.

I'd go anywhere with you, Frank.


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