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The Gentleman From Indiana

CHAPTER VII
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I've connected myself with an oil company, and I'm down here to look over the ground.

It beats poker and fan-tan hollow, though there ain't as many chances in favor of the dealer, and in oil it's the farmer that gets the rake-off.

I've come back, but in an enterprising spirit this time, to open up a new field and shed light and money in Carlow.
They told me never to show my face here again, but if you say I stay, I guess I stay.

I always was sure there was oil in the county, and I want to prove it for everybody's benefit.

Is it all right ?" "My dear fellow," laughed the young man, shaking the gambler's hand again, "it is all right.


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