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a Contract is dissipated and annulled by surrounding circumstances. 

I should have said in a previous part of this letter that Doct Jines offers to pay the 55 Dollars incurred by Mr Herren but the latter declines to give up Levin upon the payment, because he gave the Man attention which saved his Life and which was refused by every other in the Neighborhood, and that believing the Boy was not under any Contract he hired him and turned off other applicants, and it would be a serious inconvenience to give him up now — aside from what he considers just claims to his labor. So I decide,