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Mr. Trent was on hand in the office of S. B. Bradford, Attorney at Law, promptly at ten the next morning. He was plainly very much pleased to learn that his offer had been accepted, although he took pains to declare that he had expected nothing else.
-"No one but a fool would turn it down," he said, "and if we thought you were a fool we shouldn't hire you. The next thing for you to do, Bradford, is to get to work on those holdouts and hurry up about it. Why not go and see old Bartlett to-day?"