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Updated: May 19, 2025
The heat-laden atmosphere was so still that it had that oily sort of haze that distinguishes the mirage in the East, when the air appears composed of little waving lines wavering to and fro that dazzle your eyes with their almost-imperceptible motion as you look at them; and the silence was unbroken save by the chuck-chuck-chuck of some meddlesome blackbird in the shrubbery annoying the sparrows in their nap, and the answering click-clink-tweedle-deedle-dum-tum-tweedle-um of the yellow- hammer, telling as plainly as the little songster could tell that he at all events was wide awake, while, in the far distance, there could be heard the coo of ring-doves and the melancholy lament of the cuckoo investigating the hedgerows in quest of other birds' nests wherein to lay its solitary egg, and finding itself forestalled at every turn!
"I'm afraid he was, Sire. Did you know he was secretly building a great war fleet on another planet?" There was an almost-imperceptible pause before the answer was barked out. "Nonsense, sir. That I can't believe!" Hanlon shook his head. The emperor was lying now. Why? Was he part perhaps head of the plot? His mind-probing had not yet reached an answer to those important questions.
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