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In the Dark Backward
"Why shouldn't we put it through?" Deane questioned.
Merritt sat up and felt himself for matches.
"I don't know!" he answered somewhat dubiously. "No reason, I suppose. But somehow, all along, I haven't been able to see us getting to the end of it. I can plan out to a certain point with a reasonable certainty, barring accidents and the will of God, that things will fall out as I intended. But beyond that point, in a way it is as though I had an inkling that it was the unexpected which would happen. Of course, it is merely nonsense. By the way, hasn't Holloway got back yet?"
"I presume so," Deane answered. "His boy left those rolls of films he in-
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