MAX MAKES IT CLEAR
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For the first seconds, the sight had seemed to paralyze Baraka, as it amazed the others; but now suddenly he galvanized into action. His dark hand closed over Max Schimmel's, as, almost with a shriek, he clutched the stone and hugged it to him. His feet, as if of themselves, left the floor, and, while he hugged the emerald tighter and tighter against him, he half leaped, half danced up and down.
Hereford looked to his ward, and found her look met his, filled with a happy light.
