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ool teacher myself, when I’m to hum.”Indeed! It’s a very interesting and useful work–labouring for souls. Ah, they come from Marshall, in Iowa.’
‘Don’t say! Why, I—-‘
‘But they did not arrive; their train had been delayed. But, as I was about to tell you, if I had not chanced to have in my possession a roll of bills, put in my care by the father of one of the younger lads, I might have been kept outside for some time longer.’
‘How’s that?’
I had been a little puzzled at this dialogue, and was losing my interest somewhat when it reached this point, and I pricked up my ears anew, while I continued to copy inscriptions and jot down memoranda.
‘It seems almost like confessing to a breach of trust; but there seemed no other way, and so, stepping to one side, I took out the package of money belonging to my young friend. I had counted it in his father’s presence, and knew that it contained on the very outside of the roll a two dollar bill. I took this and procured my ti
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