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He was fully dressed. "Awake, Billy?" "Is it gittin'-up time?" The old man came into the room and lighted a gas-jet. He looked at his watch. "No; only a quarter to four. I ain't been to bed yet." Billy Brue sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Rheumatiz again, Uncle Peter?" "No; I been thinkin', Billy. How do you like the game?" He began to pace the floor again from one room to the other.
He knew too well the sensitive pride of the man with whom he had to deal, and he was chiefly anxious now that Ranald should know as little as possible of the real object of his going to British Columbia. "We've got to make the British-American Coal and Lumber Company know the time of day. It's gittin'-up time out in this country. They were talkin' a little of drawin' out." Ranald gasped.
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