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Chapter XVI

THE COUNCIL FIRE


"Across the lake in golden glory,%
The fairy gleams of sunlight glow.
Another day of joy is ending,%
The clouds of twilight gather low."

ANOTHER day of joy, indeed! Without
peril of rattlesnake--or marplot nickum
to spoil it!

"' Varnish right--and aeroplane wrong!'
That's what he said when they laid that
trap to get us out of the cave, without any
fuss. But I say it's: 'Varnish right-and
puzzle wrong!' All wrong!" snapped
Pemrose to herself again and again, repeating
an old saying during the week following
that first Get Together. "Nobody--nobody
has a right to drift around as a puzzle,
these days! If ever I get a chance, see me
snub him har-rd--though he did rescue
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