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Red Money

CHAPTER VI
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I lure the rabbit from its hole, and then you play the dance that delights the Gorgios.

But what I do, with kisses or arm-loving, my brother," she added shaking her finger, "is but the play of the wind to shake the leaves.

Believe me honest and my rom you shall be--some day!" and she went away laughing, to eat and drink, for the long watching had tired her.

As for Kara he crawled again into the underwood to search for his knife.

Apparently he did not trust Chaldea as much as she wanted him to.
Thus it came about that when the moon rolled through a starry sky like a golden wheel, Lambert, sighing at his studio window, saw a slim and graceful figure glide into the clear space of lawn beyond the monoliths.
So searching was the thin moonlight that he recognized Chaldea at once, as she wandered here and there restless as a butterfly, and apparently as aimless.


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