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The Inheritors

CHAPTER FIVE
20/21

might even do you good." In that way the thing went through.

As I was leaving the room, the idea occurred to me, "By the way, you don't know anything of a clique: the Dimensionists--_Fourth_ Dimensionists ?" "Never heard of them," he negatived.

"What's their specialty ?" "They're going to inherit the earth," I answered.
"Oh, I wish them joy," he closed.
"You don't happen to be one yourself?
I believe it's a sort of secret society." He wasn't listening.

I went out quietly.
The night effects of that particular neighbourhood have always affected me dismally.

That night they upset me, upset me in much the same way, acting on much the same nerves as the valley in which I had walked with that puzzling girl.


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