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A People’s Man

CHAPTER XIV
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A million pounds may enable them to hold out until they can secure practically what terms they like.

Those million pounds are yours to-day, yours for the people, if you pledge your word to a universal strike." "Including the railways ?" "Including the railways," Mr.Beldeman assented.
Maraton smiled quietly.
"I do not ask you," he said, "what country you represent.

I think that it is not necessary.

You have come to me rather as though I were a dictator.

There are others besides myself with whom influence rests." "It is you only who count," Mr.Beldeman declared.


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