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Messer Marco Polo

CHAPTER XV
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Fair play's a jewel, and you wouldn't have a chance.
There's the Red Pope from Tibet and there's the Black Magician from Korea and a hundred minor ones, and the Warlock of the North, from the Islands of Ice, who governs the hail and the snow.

Child, I wouldn't let you get into the same ring with them.

They'd ruin you." "But, sir, wasn't it a great miracle of the Lord's, my rescue in the Gobi Desert ?" "A miracle of the Lord's! A miracle of Golden Bells here.

It was her magician saw you, and she had the message put on the drums, and the desert patrols went to seek you.

It was herself here, wee Golden Bells." And Golden Bells' mouth gave a smile of shame that his thought should be broken in his mind.
"A long way I'm after coming," said Marco Polo, "and when I set out my heart was high." "Now, don't be taking it too hard," says the khan, kindly.


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