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THE STREET OF THE FOUR WINDS.
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moon here,—the crystal moons of dreamland. She is—very—beautiful, your mistress.”

The words died on his lips and his eyelids drooped.

The cat too was asleep, her cheek turned up upon her wasted flank, her paws relaxed and limp.