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Mr. Huss stopped reading.

He lay thinking idly.

"I was talking about blind alleys the other day. Queer that he should have hit on the same phrase

"Some old sermon of mine perhaps No doubt I've had the thought before

"I suppose that one could define education as the lifting of minds out of blind alleys

"A permissible definition anyhow

"I wish I could remember that talk better. I said a lot of things about submarines. I said something