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The Second Generation

CHAPTER V
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Nothing wrong with either of us, but that stream Dory Hargrave was talking about." "There's John Dumont," mused Ranger.
"Yes--_he_ is an exception.

But what's he doing with what his father left him?
I don't let them throw dust in my eyes with his philanthropy as they call it.

The plain truth is he's a gambler and a thief, and he uses what his father left him to be gambler and thief on the big scale, and so keep out of the penitentiary--'finance,' they call it.

If he'd been poor, he'd have been in jail long ago--no, he wouldn't--he'd have done differently.
It was the money that started him wrong." "A great deal of good can be done with money," said Hiram.
"Can it ?" demanded Mrs.Fred.

"It don't look that way to me.


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