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The Wrong Twin

CHAPTER XVII
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But the die is cast.

God helping me, I must follow the light." The last was purely rhetorical, for no one on the staff of the _New Dawn_ believed that God helped any one.

Indeed, it was rather felt that God was on the side of privilege.

But the speaker glowed as he achieved his period.
"If you would only try to get our point of view," again suggested Harvey D., as he straightened the Reading From Homer.
"I cannot turn aside." "Meaning ?" inquired Sharon Whipple.
"Meaning that we cannot accept another dollar of tainted money for our great work," said Merle, crisply.
"Oh," said Sharon, "but that's what your pa just told you! You accepted it till he shut off on you." "Against my better judgment and with many misgivings," returned the apostle of light.

"Now we can go to the bitter end with no false sense of obligation." "But your magazine will have to stop, I fear," interposed Gideon gently.
Merle smiled wanly, shaking his head the while as one who contradicts from superior knowledge.
"You little know us," he retorted when the full effect of the silent, head-shaking smile had been had.


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