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were in town, Stephen suddenly appeared in the midst, aiicl
for Yates as for a long-loss brother.

- t>/<<, I am so glad to see you I OL. ray soul, the sight of you is
snob, a comfort: to my eyes! Gentlemen, I owe all of you money ;
among vou I owe probably forty thousand dollars. I want to pay it;

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I intend to pay It—every last cent of it. You all know, without my
telling you, what sorrow it has cost me to remain so long under such
deep obligations to such patient and generous friends ; but the sharpest
pang I suffer—by far the sharpest—is from the debt I owe to this noble
young man here ; and I have come fco this place this morning especially
to mak^-fche announcement that I have at last found a method whereby