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The Half-Hearted

PART II
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Our friends the Bada-Mawidi now and then wake them up.

I see from the _Temps_ that a great stirring of the tribes in the Southern Pamirs is reported.

I expect that news came overland through Russia.

It's the sort of canard these gentry are always getting up to justify a massing of troops on the Amu Daria in order that some new governor may show his strategic skill.

I daresay you may find things a little livelier than I found them." As they went towards the Faubourg St.Honore a bitter Paris north-easter had begun to drift a fine powdered snow in their eyes.
Gribton shivered and turned up the collar of his fur coat.


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