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"Well, don't worry," Ralph Addington said with the contemptuous accent

hich latterly he answered all Frank Merrill's rehed, but Frank turned on them a look of severe reproof

"Oh, hell!" Honey Sain I say, girls," he called at the top of his lungs, "don't go!

Stay a little longer and we'll buy you a dinner and a taxicab"

Apparently the flying-girls realized that he was addressing them For a

hair's breadth of a second they paused Then, with a speed that had a

suggestion of panic in it, they flew out to sea And again a flood of

girl-laughter fell in bubbles upon them

"They distrust muh!" Honey commented But he smiled with the indolent

amusement of the man who has always held the master-hand omen

"Must have come from the east, this time," he said as they filed soberly

back to camp "But where in thunder do they start from?"

They had, of course, discussed this question as they had discussed a

hundred other obvious ones "I' now," Frank Merrill answered,

"if there are islands both to the east and the west But, after all, I'm

ed woain they talked far into the night And as before their comment was of

the wonder, the roain they drew i

Golden Age" that they would soon institute on Angel Island