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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: suffering stranger twenty dollars apiece--and that remark--each in
his turn--it took twenty-two minutes for the procession to move
past. Staked the stranger--total contribution, $360. All they want
is just the loan back--and interest--forty thousand dollars
altogether."
Many Voices [derisively.] "That's it! Divvy! divvy! Be kind to
the poor--don't keep them waiting!"
The Chair. "Order! I now offer the stranger's remaining document.
It says: 'If no claimant shall appear [grand chorus of groans], I
desire that you open the sack and count out the money to the
principal citizens of your town, they to take it in trust [Cries of
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