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adventure At first they athered over each iirls Each man

followed the bent of his individual instinct for acquisitiveness Frank

Merrill picked out books, paper, writing ton ran to clothes The habit of the man hom it is a

business policy to appear well-dressed maintained itself; even in their

Eveless Eden, he presented a certain tailored smartness Billy Fairfax

selected kitchen utensils and tools Later, he came across a box filled

with tennis rackets, nets, and balls The rackets' strings had snapped

and the balls were dead He began i the rackets,

to make new balls from twine, to lay out a court Like true soldiers of

fortune, Honey Smith and Pete Murphy made no special collection; they

looted for mere loot's sake

One day, in the midst of one of their raids, Honey Smith yelled a

surprised and triuns, of

interest Honey was an alarht prove

to be a Japanese print or a corkscrew But as nobody stirred or spoke,

he called, "The Wilic His co; they swarmed about hiht looked like a

globe of blue fire, a fire that emitted rainbows instead of sparks

He passed it froers

which touched it did not burst into flaht have been five children

"Well," said Pete Murphy, "according to all fiction precedent, the rest

of us ought to get together immediately, if not a little sooner, and

murder you, Honey"