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Vandemark’s Folly

CHAPTER XV
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When I drove up to the door he asked me in a low tone to come and help carry the money out.

The governor unlocked his office, and then the safe, and took out the bag, which he handed to Judge Stone.
"Heavy as ever," said the judge.

"Catch hold here, Jake, and help me carry it." "A heavy responsibility at least," said the governor.

The governor's hired people of whom he had always a large force had not taken part in the proceedings of the party, but most of them were gathered about as we took our departure.

They were to a great extent the younger men among the settlers, and the governor in later times never got tired of saying how much he had done for the early settlers in giving them employment.
N.V.Creede in answering him in campaigns always said that if he gave the boys work, they gave the governor labor in return, and at a dollar a day it seemed to him that the governor was the one who was under obligations to them.


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