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The Titan

CHAPTER XXXVIII
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Now you're a man of sense and judgment and considerable business experience, and I want to ask you if you think that is fair.
I came here some sixteen or seventeen years ago and went into the gas business.

It was an open field, the field I undertook to develop--outlying towns on the North, South, and West sides.

Yet the moment I started the old-line companies began to fight me, though I wasn't invading their territory at all at the time." "I remember it well enough," replied Gilgan.

"I was one of the men that helped you to get your Hyde Park franchise.

You'd never have got it if it hadn't been for me.


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