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the fact that it had not done so was 

 obviously beyond the sphere of rational 

 calculation. In the long stable at the other 

 side of the yard a heavy hoof was dealing 

 sledge-hammer kicks to the stall, and 

 Glasgow, as he heard it, estimated what 

 price the creditors would get for the big 

 dray-horses that he had brought over from 

 England for the railway work. When he 

 thought of the value of the plant that he 

 was going to leave behind, he scarcely felt 

 like a defaulter : there would be more than 

 enough realized to pay the men, and the 

 Railway Company could afford to lose. 

 There remained to him his private means, 

 the Argentine Republic, his own consider- 

 able gifts as a civil engineer, and 



Would Lady Susan remain ? He felt little 

 doubt about that part of his future. 



Mr. Andrew Murphy was offering him, 

 in the accents of Tipperary, a hundred 

 pounds for the two horses — seventy for the 

 chestnut and thirty for old Solomon — and 

 he was holding out for a hundred and 



