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The Seventh Man

CHAPTER XX
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Yet Satan was not entirely discouraged.

If he could not steal the bread he would beg for it.

It made Joan pause in her destruction of the edibles, not to watch openly, for an instinct told her that the thing to do was to note these by-plays from the corner of one's eye, as Daddy Dan did, and swallow the ripples of mirth that came tickling in the throat.

She knew perfectly well that Satan would have it in the end, for of all living things not even Munner had such power over Dan as the black stallion.

He maneuvered adroitly.
First he circled the table and stood opposite the master, begging with his eyes, but Dan looked fixedly down at the rock until an impatient whinny called up his eyes.


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