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The Companions of Jehu

CHAPTER II
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I will spare you the details of his descent from the Pyrenees, how he crossed the Alps and the three battles which he won, seizing each time the treasures of the vanquished, and turn to the five or six years he spent in Campania.

Do you believe that he and his army paid the Capuans for their subsistence, and that the bankers of Carthage, with whom he had quarrelled, supplied him with funds?
No; war fed war--the Morgan system, citizen.

Let us pass on to Caesar.

Ah, Caesar! That's another story.

He left for Spain with some thirty millions of debt, and returned with practically the same.


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