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"Every line along this coast is essential in ht proposition"

"It's a new line and is not paying dividends"

"Well, for thatin that respect on sogested afor the first time

"I'm afraid you said it then, Thoardens," declared the man who had questioned the

matter of Tucker's value

"Gentlemen, just a moment!" Julius Marston leaned forward in his

chair His voice was low His eyes narrowed He dominated them by his

earnestness "You have followed ood luck But letyet, and we cannot afford to leave one loose end! Not

one, gentlemen! That's why a fool like Tucker doesn't deserve any

consideration when he gets in our way Listen to

that has ever happened in this world is going to happen How do I know?

I am not sure that I do know But as I have just told you, the ht is the winner" His thin nose rinkled, and the strip

of beard on his chin bristled Soested the reason for his nickname as he sat there

and squinted at his associates "And there's an instinct that helps so to happen in this world before

long that will make millionaires over and over out of men who have

invested a few thousands in American bottoms"

"What will happen?" bluntly inquired one of the men, after a silence