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My answer is, because of the extraordinary ih so little was said, I felt all the while that those

feords were a veil hiding terrible events to be I was sure that

some dreadful scheme had been hatched between the old dwarf and Mameena

whereof the issue would soon become apparent, and that he had sent me

away in a hurry after he learned that she had told , because

he feared lest I should stumble on its cue and perhaps cause it to fail

At any rate, as I walked back to ht down that

dreadful gorge, the hot, thick air seemed to me to have a physical taste

and se of the tropical trees that grew

there, when now and again a puff of wind stirred theht do in their last faint agony The effect

upon ons I

was shaking like a reed, and a cold perspiration, unnatural enough upon

that hot night, poured from my face and body

Well, I took a couple of stiff tots of "squareface" to pull th went to sleep, to awake before daith a

headache Looking out of the wagon, to my surprise I sal and the

hunters, who should have been snoring, standing in a group and talking