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Romance Island

CHAPTER IX
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Not even the most advanced among us are perfect intuitionists.

We have by no means reached that desirable and inevitable day when our minds shall flow together, without need of communication, without possibility of secret.

We still suffer the disadvantage of a slight barrier of personality." "And it is into one of these lapses," thought St.George irreverently, "that the king has disappeared." Aloud he asked curiously concerning a matter which was every moment becoming more incomprehensible.
"But how, your Highness," he said simply, "did your people ever consent to have an American for your king ?" Before the prince could reply there occurred a phenomenon that sent all thought of such insubstantialities as the secrets of the Fourth Dimension far in the background.
The prince's motor, closely followed by the others of the train, had reached a little eminence from which the island unrolled in fair patterns.

Before them the smooth road unwound in varied light.

At their left lay a still grove from whose depths was glimpsed a slim needle of a tower, rising, arrow-like, from the green.


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