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THE ISLE OF SEVEN MOONS

gets such wild yarns and gets down to practical business, the better."

Philip, thinking this presaged something rather ominous, very probably the horrible suggestion of some job for his princely self, and strangely forgetting the very living skeleton now ensconced in the closet, tried to wheedle him.