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The Three Partners

PROLOGUE
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So let's liquor up." Nevertheless he did not move, nor did the others.

The fire leaped higher, bringing out the rude rafters and sternly economic details of the rough cabin, and making the occupants in their seats before the fire look gigantic by contrast.
"Who shut the door ?" said Demorest after a pause.
"I did," said Barker.

"I reckoned it was getting cold." "Better open it again, now that the fire's blazing.

It will light the way if any of the men from below want to drop in this evening." Stacy stared at his companion.

"I thought that it was understood that we were giving them that dinner at Boomville tomorrow night, so that we might have the last evening here by ourselves in peace and quietness ?" "Yes, but if any one DID want to come it would seem churlish to shut him out," said Demorest.
"I reckon you're feeling very much as I am," said Stacy, "that this good fortune is rather crowding to us three alone.


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