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Oh, I see. That's dismal."
By no means."
Why isn't it? What's the road out?"
Another appropriation, don't you see?"
Bother the appropriations. They cost more than they come to."
Not the next one. We'll call for half a million--get it and go for a
million the very next month."
"Yes, but the cost of it!"
The president smiled, and patted his secret letters affectionately. He
said:
"All these people are in the next Congress. We shan't have to pay them a
cent. And what is more, they will work like beavers for us--perhaps it
might be to their advantage."
Harry reflected profoundly a while. Then he said:
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We send many missionaries to lift up the benighted races of other lands.
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