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The four men virtually took no tie of work that stood for leisure was all in the line of

ho Eternally, they joked each other about these womanish

occupations; but they all kept steadily to it Ralph Addington and Honey

S it Billy

Fairfax sorted out the glass, china, tools, household utensils of every

kind

Pete Murphy went through the trunks with his art side uppermost He

collected all kinds of Oriental bric-a-brac, pictures and draperies He

actually s; he had all the artist's capability

in these various feminine lines When the others joked him about his

exotic and impracticable tastes, he said that, before he left, he

intended to establish a el Island

Hard as the men worked, they had always the appearance of those who

await the expected But the expected did not occur; and gradually the

sharp edge of anticipation wore dull Emotionally they calmed Their

nerves settled to a norht attracted only a casual glance In Ralph Addington alone,

expectationpoint He trained hi the horizon One afternoon, when they had