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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER SIX
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"I'm sorry for your government if you're the brightest jewel it has for this job! That Jane will use everything you've got except the squeal! Great suffering Jemima! Your title is collector, is it?
Do you collect bugs by any chance?
You act like it! So help you two men and a boy, a bughouse is where I believe you belong! Come along, fellows, he'll bite us if we stay!" "Be advised" said the collector, leaning back in his chair and sneering.

"Behave yourselves! This is no country for taking chances with the law!" "Remember Courtney's advice," said Fred when we got outside.

"Suppose we give him a few days to learn the facts about Lady Isobel, and then go back and try him again ?" "Say!" answered Will, stopping and turning to face us.

"What d'you take me for?
I like my meals.

I like three squares a day, and tobacco, and now and then a drink.


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