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" Indeed ! " said the Secretary to the Treasury, for 

 such he was ; " for what purpose, in God's name, did he 

 do that ? " 



" To shoot the first man he met prouder than himself," 

 I repHed. 



At this he smiled complacently, assuring me that he 

 should certainly take the first opportunity of making 

 known to the Commissioner the information he had thus 

 acquired. 



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