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  " There is something I want to tell you 

about," he said as he sat down beside me on the sofa before the fire. "And I want you to listen carefully and then tell me what you think about it. I'm not forgetting that you're only a little girl, but you've had a certain experience with the things I have on my mind to-night, and I want you to feel free to tell me just what you think." He went on to remind me of the way we lived crossed out: when we were in Nahmoc, of how the grandfathers had come from the East and founded the two companies. Men were still coming from the old countries of Europe, looking for freedom and opportunity in the great natural resources of America; and even if they didn't speak good English and couldn't read and write, like many of the lumberjacks, there was a place for them in the community and a life that we could all have in common. But now there were men