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Nedra

CHAPTER XX
4/11

You are no longer a hero.
Enough to last a month! Hugh Ridgeway, are you delirious ?" she exclaimed in fine scorn.
"Wait till you see him.

He weighs a ton," he said proudly.
After their breakfast of nuts, fruit and water they started for the little beach, Lady Tennys vastly excited.

Her exclamations on seeing the sea monster amused Hugh beyond measure.
"I never dreamed a turtle could be so immense," she cried.

"This one must be a thousand years old." "If he is, we'll have tough steaks," observed he grimly.

Later on he carved several fine steaks from the turtle and cleaned the upper shell carefully, wisely concluding to retain it for the usefulness it was sure to afford sooner or later.


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