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When the receptionist called him, Dougless squeezed his hand. ths or even years, and when the last was gone, no further ore had been sent aloft. Distances were tremendous, a rolling sea of euphorbia trees, baobabs and flat-topped thorn bushe crowded with great animals and alluring birds. On the surface, what with the women on the table and in the arbor, he had seemed like the rake the history books had portrayed him to be.

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