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Within the Tides

CHAPTER III
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Don't be hard on the chap.

He may be riding boundaries, or droving cattle, or humping his swag about the back-blocks away to the devil--somewhere.

He may be even prospecting at the back of beyond--this very moment." "Or lying dead drunk in a roadside pub.

It's late enough in the day for that." The Editor looked up instinctively.

The clock was pointing at a quarter to five.


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