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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER III
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"I've intelligence, practicability, knowledge; and in this age of science knowledge is wealth.

Example: I saw a swell march out of this place that owns all the parish I was born in.

I knew him in a moment--Colonel Clifford.

Well, that old soldier draws his rents when he can get them, and never looks deeper than the roots of the grass his cattle crop.

But _I_ tell _you_ he never takes a walk about his grounds but he marches upon millions--coal! sir, coal! and near the surface.


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