Space, if--if I was go-ing to turn over
a couple of hundred thousand dollars, for
the pursuit of the--sov-er-eign invention."

"I--I can't believe it," murmured Pem
into the stony teeth of the Man Killer.

"I meant to return the record next
morning, but I was a-fraid your father
might shoot me," to Pemrose. "Then,
later, I heard he had gone down the mountain
-that was yesterday and a mistake%
--I went-down, too, to beard him. A
--a little more water, please! I could
not climb again until to-day; I took the
Man Killer trail, as being the shortest.
And--here I am!" grimly.

"Incidentally, I gave our family lawyer
a shock, little niece," he went on, as Una,
plucking up courage, adjusted her sweater
under his head; she began to like this uncle
with the pebble-like cast in his stone-gray
eye, she began to think that girls--Camp
Fire Girls, especially, with their love of the
fanciful--might have more patience with
him than others had had.

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