[The Money Master<br> Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link book
The Money Master
Complete

CHAPTER XX
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I ought to have banked the money.

I ought not to have kept it to look at like a gamin with his marbles.

There it was in the wall; and there was Dolores a long way from home and wanting to get back.

He found the way by a gift of the tools; and I wish I had the same gift now; for I've got no other gift that'll earn anything for me." These were the last dark or pessimistic words spoken at St.Saviour's by Jean Jacques; and they were said to the Clerk of the Court, who could not deny the truth of them; but he wrung the hand of Jean Jacques nevertheless, and would not leave him night or day.

M.Fille was like a little cruiser protecting a fort when gunboats swarm near, not daring to attack till their battleship heaves in sight.


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