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A three-year-old child with a large tag pinned across his little dress played with railroad-owned blocks; the matron, a sort of stout Lachesis, with a string of keys at her belt, gray with years and the rather sweet tiredness of service, sorted towels at a rack. It was to her that Lilly spun out a ready tale, reddening as she talked, but stanch to it. "I'm from Indianapolis.
"I bet if I owned her I'd dig up enough business in Brazil and the Argentine to keep her busy. I'd be dodging backward and forward through the Canal." "You would, of course," Jerry answered placidly; "but the Oriental Steamship Company cannot." "Why?" "Fifty-one per cent. of their stock is owned by a railroad and under the law no railroad-owned ship may use the Canal." Matt's eyebrows arched.
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