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West Wind Drift

CHAPTER III
10/19

"And that's one of the three reasons why he's got them muscular arms you're lookin' at.

Sorry, though, but my orders are not to allow any one to speak to him." "Are you crazy, Ruth ?" cried the older lady, aghast.

"It's the stowaway every one is talking about.

The one who tried to blow up the ship." The young lady returned Percival's smile,--rather a diffident, uncertain effort, to be sure, but still a smile,--and murmured something about night before last at the Alcazar Grand.
"What are you saying, Ruth?
Do you mean to say you met this man at the Alcazar Grand ?" "Yes, Aunt Julia," said the other wrinkling her pretty forehead in perplexity.

"He--he danced with me." "He--you danced with him ?" gasped the horrified Aunt Julia.
"Don't you remember?
Phil Morton introduced him to us.


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