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" Well, I was stunned; partly with this unlooked-for stupidity on his part, and partly because his fellows so manifestly sided with him and were of his mind - if you might call it mind. My position was simple enough, plain enough; how could it ever be simplified more? However, I must try: "Why, look here, brother Dowley, don't you see? Your wages are merely higher than ours in NAME, not in FACT.

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