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he would enter the land described the previous night, and then steal quietly back to his hotel. The countrymen, when they found the lauel? taken, were either under the necessity of paying the purchaser an advance or again go in search of other "locations". In this way the gentlemanly, well dressed young man would pocket large profits and filch from the poor what they could not very well lose.