them to take or leave. But, if they delayed, watch
out! Railroad people couldn't be fooled with.
They might get left; that was all.

This, he felt, was more than he could undertake,
more than any reasonable person would ask. If he
paid Valentine Simmons all that money, and then let
them have back their own again, without a cent to
himself, they must be content. They should be able
to bargain as well as he -- who was getting on and
had difficulty in adding figures to the same amount
twice -- with the Tennessee and Northern.

The following morning he departed for Stenton.

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