"I think that there may be truth in what I suggest."

"Well, I don"t know what it was," said Lapham; "all I know is that when it came to the point, although I could see that I"d got to go under unless I did it--that I couldn"t sell out to those Englishmen, and I couldn"t let that man put his money into my business without I told him just how things stood."

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