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answered her, but when she goaded me into a retort about American institutions she opened her kailyard batteries and silenced me."

      The Houssa walked up and down the long bungalow.

      "It was impossible, of course," he said seriously. "absolutely impossible. She'll land at Sierra Leone and interview Tullerton – he's the U.S. Consul. I think she'll be surprised when she hears Tullerton's point of view."

      Sanders stayed to tiffin, and the discussion of Millie Tavish continued intermittently throughout the meal.

      "If I hadn't given Yoka permission to overhaul the engines of the Zaire" said Sanders, "I'd start right away for the Isisi and interview Tobolaka. But by this time he'll have her cylinders open. By the way, I've remembered something," he said, suddenly.

      He clapped his hands, and Hamilton's orderly came.