[The Octopus by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookThe Octopus CHAPTER I 81/90
It's big and there's a fortune in it.
Big chances mean big returns; and I know--your old father isn't a back number yet, Harran--I may not have so wide an outlook as our friend Cedarquist, but I am quick to see my chance.
Boy, the whole East is opening, disintegrating before the Anglo-Saxon.
It is time that bread stuffs, as well, should make markets for themselves in the Orient.
Just at this moment, too, when Lyman will scale down freight rates so we can haul to tidewater at little cost." Magnus paused again, his frown beetling, and in the silence the excited murmur from the main room of the club, the soprano chatter of a multitude of women, found its way to the deserted library. "I believe it's worth looking into, Governor," asserted Harran. Magnus rose, and, his hands behind him, paced the floor of the library a couple of times, his imagination all stimulated and vivid.
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