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The Ivory Trail

CHAPTER SEVEN
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The other to go by runner.

Kazimoto can find us a runner.

He knows these Wan-yamwezi.

He can pick a man who'll get through without fail." We could think of nothing to say against the plan.

The argument that the German government would scarcely stoop to opening private mail did not seem to hold water when we examined it, so we wrote as Fred suggested--one letter telling Monty that we hoped to make some arrangement with the Germans, and at all events to wait in German East until he could join us--and the other telling him the real facts at great length, laboriously set out in the code we had agreed upon.
We sealed the second letter in several wrappers, and sewed it up finally in a piece of waterproof silk.


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