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The Profiteers

CHAPTER XIII
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The fact of it is the Universal Line has played us false, the only shipping company which has.

They promised to advise us of all proposed wheat cargoes, and they haven't kept their word.

If my information is correct, and I expect confirmation of it at any moment in the cable I arranged to have sent to you, they have eleven steamers being loaded this very week.

It's a last effort on the part of the Liverpool ring to break us." "What'll happen if Wingate won't sell ?" Dredlinton enquired.
"I never face disagreeable possibilities before the necessity arrives," was the calm reply.

"Wingate is certain to sell.


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