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 I'd get to believing in Ibraheem's spucks myself. I'd end by cutting loose and running away."

Deane smiled at the boy through a cloud of tobacco smoke; and Merritt said, with a dry affection which only Holloway, with his spirits, his light-heartedness, and the unexpected contradiction of an imagination more torrid even than Merritt's own, could wring from him:

"Oh, yes! I have seen you run like that before, you young dare-devil. They'll forget about all this in a couple of days. They merely think it's their duty not to let one trip go by without stirring up something sensational."

Holloway sighed portentously.

"Well, you can search me!" he said with frankness. "I give it up. This