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Their bellwether is an old deacon named Isham Swift, and you couldn't turn him with a forty-horsepower crank." "There's nothing like trying." "There are many things very similar to failing, but none so bad." "I'm willing to take the risk." "Well, all right; but whom will you send? We can't waste a good man." "I'll go myself." "What, you?" "Yes, I." "Why, you'd be the laughing-stock of the State."
We kindly, but gently, ejected your guard, released Greening and my clerk, and I passed you myself in Fleet Street, a little more comfortable, I think, in my forty-horsepower motor-car than you in that very disreputable hansom. As to my presence here, I have an entrance from the street there which makes me independent of my servants.
"Then you'd better call up the police," suggested Lane. "I didn't say I was going to call the cops," retorted Jack sulkily. James looked at his cousin. Kirby Lane was strong. You could not deny his strength, audacious yet patient. He was a forty-horsepower man with the smile of a boy. Moreover, his face was a certificate of manhood. It was a recommendation more effective than words.
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