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Mr. Standfast

CHAPTER ELEVEN
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'You can't loose the bands of Orion, as the Bible says, or hold Leviathan with a hook.

I reckoned I could and made a mighty close study of his de-vices.
But the darned cuss wouldn't stay put.

I thought I had tied him down to the double bluff, and he went and played the triple bluff on me.
There's nothing doing that line.' A memory of Peter recurred to me.
'What about the "blind spot" ?' I asked, and I told them old Peter's pet theory.

'Every man that God made has his weak spot somewhere, some flaw in his character which leaves a dull patch in his brain.

We've got to find that out, and I think I've made a beginning.' Macgillivray in a sharp voice asked my meaning.
'He's in a funk ...


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