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Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces

CHAPTER V
7/15

You look in your boxes; you, too, Captain Travers.

I'll wager each of you finds a phial of Ayupee hidden among them somewhere.

Came in to put more of the cursed stuff on the ninth finger of the skeleton, so that it would be ready for the next time, didn't he, Dollops ?" "Yes, Gov'nor.

I waited for him behind the case just as you told me to, sir, and when he ups and slips the finger of the skilligan into the neck of the bottle, I nips out and whacks the bracelet on him.

But he was too quick for me, sir, so I only got one on; and then, the hound, he turns on me like a blessed hyena, sir, and begins a-chawin' of me windpipe.


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