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CHESTER PAYS A VISIT
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accepted the invitation willingly. Business was temporarily side-tracked. A little later Moniz endeavoured to revive it, but the planter's balance was too much disturbed by that time, and when he returned to spend the night on the Kestrel Chester Trent was glad that nobody had accompanied him to Tamba except the Kanakas.