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"So you are an eavesdropper and detective, are you?

I beg that you will give your ht you were a gentle eht

I called, staosy skimmed the water steadily The paddle

rose and fell with trained precision,scarcely a

ripple as she stole softly away toward the fairy towers

of the sunset I stood looking after her, goaded with

self-contelory of yellow and red filled the west

Suddenly the wind es, swept over ht until it caught her canoe and

I marked the flimsy craft's quick response, as the shaken

waters bore her alert figure upward on the swell, her

blade still ular dip, until she disappeared

behind a little peninsula that rounds

The red tae in the

red sky, and I turned to my canoe and paddled cheerlessly

home