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"Say," Honey reth they started to run

dohat happens to a el-consort or one of those seraphihed But Billy Fairfax and Pete Murphy frowned

Frank Merrill did not seeht

The h rate of speed that, since the

appearance of the women, they had set for themselves But whatever forirls They referred

to them individually now as the "dark one," the "plain one," the "thin

one," the "quiet one," and the "peachy one" They theorized eternally

about theain, so

long that they had begun to get iton this

uneasiness took the forun," he snarled

ed one of theht and waited He arose early in the , slow, solitary, silent, prowling hikes into

the interior His eyes began to look strained froard His attitude in the matter annoyed

Pete Murphy, who u hot, waned to silence, broke out

again and with increased fury Frank Merrill and Billy Fairfax listened

to all this, occasionally ss over between the disputants

But Honey Smith, who seemed more amused than bothered, deftly fed the

fla first with one and then with the other