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Allan and the Holy Flower

CHAPTER II
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So it would be no use trying to visit your Pongo friends till then, which gives me plenty of time to go to England and come out again.

If you'll trust that flower to me I'll take it with me.

Perhaps I might be able to find someone who would be willing to put down money on the chance of getting the plant on which it grew.

Meanwhile, you are welcome to this house if you care to stay here." "Thank you, Allan, but I can't sit still for so many months.

I'll go somewhere and come back." He paused and a dreamy look came into his dark eyes, then went on, "You see, Brother, it is laid on me to wander and wander through all this great land until--I know." "Until you know what ?" I asked, sharply.
He pulled himself together with a jerk, as it were, and answered with a kind of forced carelessness.
"Until I know every inch of it, of course.


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