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The Mermaid

CHAPTER IV
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It was a consolation to them both that Morrison could state that this youngest child was the only member of his family for whom Day had ever shown affection.
The other visitor Caius had was Jim Hogan.

He was a rough youth; he had a very high, rounded forehead, so high that he would have almost seemed bald if the hair, when it did at last begin, had not been exceedingly thick, standing in a short red brush round his head.

With the exception of this peculiar forehead, Jim was an ordinary freckled, healthy young man.

He saw no sense at all in what Caius was doing.

When he came he sat himself down on the edge of the cliff, swung his heels, and jeered unfeignedly.
When the work was finished it became noised that the tablet was to be seen.


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