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thousands of cheap watches, all alike—the Ford watch!

"I tell you there's a fortune in it—a fortune!" the young fellows in the scheme exclaimed to each other.

"All we need now is the capital," Ford decided at last.

He was turning his mind to the problem of getting it, when he received a letter from his sister Margaret. His father had been injured in an accident; his older brother was ill. Couldn't he come home for a while? They needed him.