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"What day?" Socratic asked. "Oh, Thursday or Friday," a little impatiently. "Thursday is all right. What hour? Ten o'clock do?" "Yes, yes, that will do," sighed the busy, busy business man, his nose deep in his work. Socratic turned on his heel and walked out. Thursday morning he was again beside Brainerd's desk. It was easy to see that this little buzz-fly was a mile up in the air.
But he had worked his own undoing, for, till they broke camp, Papeete haunted him like a buzz-fly, peeping at him, sometimes from under the tent, trotting after him like a dog, watching him from a distance, till he began to think of "haunts" and "sendings" and spooks. When Berselius and his companion returned, the three men sat and smoked till supper time.
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