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Prester John

CHAPTER XI
20/27

Laputa fitted the key to the cipher, and the meaning was clear.
He concluded, I remember, with a picture of the overthrow of the alien, and the golden age which would dawn for the oppressed.

Another Ethiopian empire would arise, so majestic that the white man everywhere would dread its name, so righteous that all men under it would live in ease and peace.
By rights, I suppose, my blood should have been boiling at this treason.

I am ashamed to confess that it did nothing of the sort.

My mind was mesmerized by this amazing man.

I could not refrain from shouting with the rest.


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