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The Light That Failed

CHAPTER VIII
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You're in fine fog-horn form tonight.' 'Give us the "Ganges Pilot"; you sang that in the square the night before El-Maghrib.

By the way, I wonder how many of the chorus are alive to-night,' said Dick.
Torpenhow considered for a minute.

'By Jove! I believe only you and I.
Raynor, Vicery, and Deenes--all dead; Vincent caught smallpox in Cairo, carried it here and died of it.

Yes, only you and I and the Nilghai.' 'Umph! And yet the men here who've done their work in a well-warmed studio all their lives, with a policeman at each corner, say that I charge too much for my pictures.' 'They are buying your work, not your insurance policies, dear child,' said the Nilghai.
'I gambled with one to get at the other.

Don't preach.


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