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"Come ahead, then!" he said "You'll have to bunk in the cook-tent, and bring your own bed with you, but we'll be delighted to have you with us"

Scho at vonce and pack up," he exclai and pick me up," and he started for the door

At five o'clock the next ons crawled out on the desert trail, ca, particularly after they struck the deep sand which began ten miles out of the town Gustav Schmidt was rather silent when they stopped at noon, to water and feed their horses and to eat the lunch the Chinaman had put up for them He was heavily coated with dust and his face had burned badly

Half way through the second sandwich he said: "Ve'll get even with that sun, eh? Ve harness him and make him pump vater on us and on this damn sand, eh? Gott, vat a country!"

"What's thethe sand off a ripe olive "It's exactly the kind of country I want to make solar poith and it's exactly the kind of country you want to cure your bad lungs If you don't like it--"

"Vait! Vait!" interrupted Scho back to Gero, I try to take you and young Wolf mit me This is the land of nature's opportunity In the Fatherland, the governif the opportunity This is the land for the adventure, for the exploitation, nicht wahr? Gerer shook his head Nevertheless, his eyes istful Many tier's education and reading had long ago persuaded him that Germany was the land for the thinker, that there a ive birth to an idea such as his He wondered why he never had cut loose and gone to the Fatherland Soation to his own country, he supposed And yet, he thought bitterly what a fool he had been! Surely there could be no passion, not even the love for woht as a man's desire to express his dreams And that expression was denied hiht that depleted his creative force, surely by half