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CHAPTER II
THE SLUMBER-SONG OF THE NILE
WHEN the people who had been ashore boarded the yacht again, they were quickly summoned aft by an excited voice. Fen pulled himself up in his chair and leaned on his elbow.
"Oh, such a wonderful thing has happened to me!" he cried. "A Djinn—a Blue one—came here, an' his name is Siddereticus, an' he made scarabs come out of the air, an' a slave, with a fuz on his head, an' a sword, that fought with an in-vis-ible demon, an' he told me about the temples, an'—"
His mother reached out her hand, quietly and rapidly passing it over Fen's
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