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Romance Island

CHAPTER VII
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Akko came and nodded and showed white teeth.
"To-morrow," he said only.
Barnay came.
"Fwhat matther ?" He put it cynically, scowling critically at Jarvo and Akko.

"All in the way av fair fight, that'll be about Mor-rocco, if I've the full av my wits about me, an' music to my eyes, by the same token." Jarvo fixed him with his impenetrable look.
"It is the light of the king's palace on the summit of Mount Khalak," he announced simply.
The light of the king's palace.

St.George heard and thrilled with thanksgiving.

It would be then the light at her very threshold, provided the impossible is possible, as scientists and devotees have every reason to think.

But was she there--was she there?
If there was an oracle for the answer, it was not St.George.The little white stars danced and signaled faintly on the far horizon.


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