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 ¬soon conclude my narrative, in disclosing to you our present condition." ¬? ¬" That might be a good reason," I said, " for reserve, if you were publishing a history, but none for baulking the curiosity you have set on fire to find the clue to so extraordinary a state of things." — " I can give it you, then," replied Morven, " very shortly;" and he then pro- ceeded as the reader will find in the following chapter. ¬ CHAP-