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"'With pleasure, said he, 'though I venture to prophesy that you'll want very few hints." They went in to dinner together, a regular feast of a dinner it seemed to the ex-blacksmith's apprentice, and after a while began to talk about the benefactress who, they believed, had made it possible.
Among them were bankers and merchants and real estate dealers, side by side with soda-jerkers and counter-jumpers and elevator-men and all taking their orders from an ex-blacksmith's helper, who had run away to fight in the Philippines.
Jimmy had read such words, and thought them just camouflage, a trap for the "fools". But here, a sight of wonder before his eyes, a son of Ashton Chalmers, president of the First National Bank of Leesville, being ordered about and hauled over the coals by an ex-blacksmith's helper, who happened to know how to shout with the accents of a pile-driver: "Shoulder HUMPS! Order HUMPS! Present HUMPS!"
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