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The Mystery of Metropolisville

CHAPTER III
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There! there's a forty that I lent a hundred dollars on at five per cent a month and six per cent after maturity, with a waiver in the mortgage.

The day I came here to see this I was nearly dead.

I had a--" Just here the fat gentleman would get desperate, and, by way of preventing the completion of the dolorous account, would break out with: "That's Sokaska, the new town laid out by Johnson--that hill over there, where you see those stakes.

I bought a corner-lot fronting the public square, and a block opposite where they hope to get a factory.

There's a brook runs through the town, and they think it has water enough and fall enough to furnish a water-power part of the day, during part of the year, and they hope to get a factory located there.


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