Nd sMOUNTAIN rABLYLE WILBURTON DALE known to himself and a few close friends as Bill Dal had laid out a course of action almost before the northbound train had left the outskirts of the State capital behind. It incurred facing big odds; but other men had faced big odds and won out, and what others had done he could do. I ndeed, he had already done several things which other men might not have thought of doing, and one of them was the leaving of a bride, not figuratively but literally, at the altar in a fashionable church! But he knew Patricia hadnt wanted to marry him any more than he had wanted to marry her. It was only natural for him to think of coal, now that he had cut loose for all time from the set in which he had always been a colossal misfit, now that he must pull his own oars or virtually perish. He had heard coal talked since the day of his birth; to him coal and business meant exactly the same. His thoughts ran backward.
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