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 and came over to them, with the faint glow of a cigarette stabbing a hole in the darkness.

"Apparatus all right?" Deane asked. "Get any views this afternoon?"

"Yes," Holloway answered. "I've been prowling. This place is great. Awfully lonesome sort of feeling it gives a fellow, though, to look into the holes we've dug and think what the old chaps would say if they could see us." Deane and Merritt, unseen, grinned in sympathy. "That brute of a boy got all my films sunstruck—four dozen rolls. I didn't expect to use them much, but I hate to have 'em go, on principle. I believe I'll turn in. Good-night, everybody."

"'Night!" they chorused solemnly.