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The Firing Line

CHAPTER XX
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O pip! What's the use." Dinner modified his grief; hope bubbled in the Burgundy, simmered in the soup, grew out of gravy like the sturdy, eternal weed she is, parasitic in the human breast.
"He's probably married a million or so," suggested Portlaw, mollified under the seductive appeal of a fruit salad dressed with a mixture containing nearly a hundred different ingredients.

"If he has I don't see why he shouldn't build a camp next to mine.

I'll give him the land--if he doesn't care to pay for it," he added cautiously.

"Don't say anything to him about it, Hamil.

After all, why shouldn't he pay for the land ?...


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