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The World For Sale
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CHAPTER VIII
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You must go." "Who are you to tell me I must go ?" The fat hands quivered on the table with anger and emotion, but also with fear of something.

"You may be a rich man and own railways, but--" "But I am not rich and I don't own railways.

Lately bad feeling has been growing on the Sagalac, and only a spark was needed to fire the ricks.
You struck the spark in your sermon last night.

I don't see the end of it all.

One thing is sure--you're not going to take the funeral service to-morrow." The slack red lips of the man of God were gone dry with excitement, the loose body swayed with the struggle to fight it out.
"I'll take no orders from you," the husky voice protested.


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