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It had long since healed, was an inch or so across, and looked as though a piece of the skull had been removed. If a conscientious enemy had leisure and an icepick he would do just about that sort of a job. How its recipient had escaped instant death is a mystery. At length, about three o'clock, despairing of the camels, we turned in. After three hours' sleep we were again on deck.
I went back to the library and "Bolivar County," and, I must confess, to a nap in my chair. I was roused by the feeling that some one was staring at me. My eyes focused first on the icepick, then, as I slowly raised them, on Maggie's face, set in hard and uncompromising lines. "I'd thank you to come with me," she said stiffly. "Come where?" "To the telephone." I groaned inwardly.
"If you ask me I'll say Dare Lane ought to hand something to the men!" burst out Floss Dickerson, with fire in her eyes. "You said a mouthful, kiddo," responded Helen, with her narrow contracted gaze upon Margaret. "Daren gave me the once over and then the icepick!" "Wonder what he gave poor Mel when he heard about her," murmured Elinor, thoughtfully.
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