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THREE YEARS AFTERWARDS
O you know what he had done—I mean, besides paying Albert a hundred dollars for those cramps? Substituted another screw top to the gasoline tank, with a watch-spring attachment that was timed to close the air aperture at the end of forty minutes! And then, under the cover of the darkness, he gives us back the original nicely plugged with dirt. You couldn't get ahead of a man like that, could you? When he really proposed, I saw
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