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David Harum

CHAPTER XX
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Oh, by the way," he exclaimed, "the's somethin' I fergot.

I want to make you a proposition, ruther an onusual one, but seein' ev'rythin' is as 't is, perhaps you'll consider it." "Dave," declared the widow, "if I could, an' you ast for it, I'd give ye anythin' on the face o' this mortal globe!" "Wa'al," said David, nodding and smiling, "I thought that mebbe, long 's you got the int'rist of that investment we ben talkin' about, you'd let me keep what's left of the princ'pal.

Would ye like to see it ?" Mrs.Cullom looked at him with a puzzled expression without replying.
David took from his pocket a large wallet, secured by a strap, and, opening it, extracted something enveloped in much faded brown paper.
Unfolding this, he displayed upon his broad fat palm an old silver dime black with age.
"There's the cap'tal," he said..


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