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The night was intensely hot; not a breath of air could stir within our living-cabin, and the cooling moisture which always comes with nightfall on the equator was lapped up by the thirsty fronds above our heads, so that I had not slept many hours before I awoke dripping with perspiration, and faint. There was an impression in my mind that I had been awakened by the falling of glass.
Fledra removed Snatchet and returned to the living-cabin, as Lon had suggested. "I want to talk to you before I sit down," she said in a low tone. "What are you going to do with me?" Just then the scow lurched, and the whistle of the tug ahead screamed a farewell to Tarrytown. Fledra heard the grinding of the boat against the landing as it was pulled slowly away, and she sprang to the window.
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