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The Depot Master

CHAPTER V
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'Twas easy enough to see why HE believed in a 'supplementary season.' "Me and Jonadab argued it out with Peter, and finally we met halfway, so's to speak.

We wouldn't keep the whole shebang open, but we'd shut up everything but one Annex cottage, and advertise that as a Gunner's Retreat.

So we done it.
"And it worked.

Heavens to Betsy--yes! It worked so well that by the second week in September we had to open t'other Annex.

The gunnin' was bad, but Peter's ads fetched the would-be's, and his 'excursions' and picnics and the football team held 'em.


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