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Michael Brother of Jerry

CHAPTER XIII
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After all, I do them neither hurt nor harm, but only good, and add to their health." "But them scars--that gouge out of your face--all them fingers missing on your hand?
You never got them in the fight in the longboat when the bo's'n carved you up.

Then where in Sam Hill did you get the them?
Wait a minute, sir.

Let me fill your glass first." And with a fresh-brimmed glass, Charles Stough Greanleaf narrated the history of his scars.
"First, you must know, steward, that I am--well, a gentleman.

My name has its place in the pages of the history of the United States, even back before the time when they were the United States.

I graduated second in my class in a university that it is not necessary to name.


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