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The Titan

CHAPTER XLIV
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The newspapers and the respectable financial and social elements will fully support you in this.

Otherwise they will wholly desert you.

Things have come to a handsome pass when men sworn and elected to perform given services turn on their backers and betray them in this way!" Mr.Hand was very wroth.
Mr.Sluss, immaculate in black broadcloth and white linen, was very sure that he would fulfil to the letter all of Mr.Hand's suggestions.
The proposed ordinance should be denounced by him; its legislative progress heartily opposed in council.
"They shall get no quarter from me!" he declared, emphatically.

"I know what the scheme is.

They know that I know it." He looked at Mr.Hand quite as one advocate of righteousness should look at another, and the rich promoter went away satisfied that the reins of government were in safe hands.


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