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I will sell anything I have, except my wife and cottage, if I can get my price." "What's your selling price for the Majestic?" laughingly asked the other. "O, well, let me see I suppose forty thousand pounds would buy it." "All right," said Case, as he turned away, "I guess I'll not change employers this year." The Montreal Daily Gazette lay upon Mr. McLain's breakfast table a few days later. Mrs.
McLain's father, a sturdy and sagacious Scotchman, had landed in Canada when Abram was about ten years of age, and began in earnest to win at least a living, if not a fortune, in this sparsely settled city, which at that time was hardly worthy the name of a city, although its thoroughgoing citizens had procured a city charter. Mr.
I will bring the papers." "All right," said the Major, and departed. A day or two after the sale of the Majestic, while the preparation of the transfer papers was going on, Mr. McLain's young man, who was acting as his secretary and clerk, asked his employer to be relieved of his present duties. "Why, what is the matter, Hiram?" asked Mr. McLain. "Don't you like your job?"
McLain's spare time was spent at the Majestic, then the largest hotel in the city, he being its owner. Ernest Case, the acting landlord, took great pleasure in introducing him to customers, and especially if they were prominent persons or had titles attached to their names, who honored this hostelry with their presence. One evening Mr.
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