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And all the time there was the worst of all to be hidden from everybody concerning Raffles and me! Meanwhile I explored a system of flower-houses and vineries that ran out from the conservatory in a continuous chain each link with its own temperature and its individual scent and not a pane but rattled and streamed beneath the timely torrent.
In the translucent green twilight of the flower-houses a hundred varieties of the costly orchids thrive not costly here. A shipload can be bought of the natives for three cents apiece. Walks carry you out into the dim aisles of the native jungle. Monkeys, surprised at your footsteps, spring from limb to limb, and swing, chattering, out of sight in a mass of rubber-vines.
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