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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER IX
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Our fathers have met at that wretched pit, and the foreman has told me what passed between them.

My father complained that mining for coal was not husbandry, and it was very unfair to do it, and to smoke him out of house and home.

(Unfortunately the wind was west, and blew the smoke of the steam-engine over his lawn.) Your father said he took the farm under that express stipulation.

Colonel Clifford said, 'No; the condition was smuggled in.' 'Then smuggle it out,' said Mr.Bartley." "Oh!" "If it had only ended there, Mary.

But they were both in a passion, and must empty their hearts.


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