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see him--"

"My wish!"

Dr Lavendar would not notice the interruption "Will you appoint the

tih with it! Get through with it!"

He stared at his visitor and blinked rapidly; a moment later he shook

all over "Lavendar, it will kill reen dressing-gown and high beaver hat, with

his lower lip sucked in like a frightened child's The torch of life,

blown so often into furious flae, had consuht be snuffed out by

any slightest gust "He

in the hot sunshine and the drift of locust blossoone out West He gets back Saturday I'll

send hi--if I can"

"Gad-a-ot

to come, too!" He looked at his old friend with scared eyes "I won't

go to the gate with you Can't leave these birds I'm a slave to 'em"