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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER TEN
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He has been sober quite a while.

Maybe he'll remember if we direct him carefully." "What is to be the signal ?" she asked.
"Just what I'm coming to," said Will.

"A fire-alarm on the first windy night! The next question is, who is to start the fire?
We'll need a good one! Yet if we do it, we're likely to be caught by the crowd coming running to deal with it." "Coutlass!" she answered suddenly.

"Coutlass and his two friends!" "You'll perhaps pardon me," Fred answered, "but none of us would trust those Greeks as far as a hen could swim in alcohol!" "Yet you must! Leave them to me! They don't know that the sand in my glass has run down.

Let me go to them presently, pretending that I went direct to them and am afraid of being seen by you.


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