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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Swamiji, your presence is just the excuse I need to get out into the garden," Luther said gaily. He opened a large desk-drawer containing hundreds of travel folders. "See," he said, "this is how I do my traveling. Tied down by my plants and correspondence, I satisfy my desire for foreign lands by a glance now and then at these pictures."
Opening his desk-drawer, he assured himself the Pearl Star was still there. This done, he turned again to the map, carefully studied the location of the point Rrisa had designated, and going to the pilot-house gave directions for a new course to "Captain Alden," now at the wheel.
Then with trembling hands he emptied his pockets on the table, including Paul's gift and the fees he had just received, and opening a desk-drawer took from it a striped cotton handkerchief, such as negro women wear on their heads, containing a small quantity of silver tied up in a hard knot, and a boy's purse. This he emptied on the table with his own money.
Wind and current brought some of them back, anyhow. If they'd stayed in the storeroom they'd have all been burned to a crisp." "Yes, yes. You think, then, we can make a start?" The Master put his apparatus into the desk-drawer and carefully locked it. He stood up and tightened his belt a notch. "We can try, sir," Frazier affirmed grimly.
Heavily then, like a person walking in her sleep the girl trailed out of the room to get her coat and hat. Slamming one desk-drawer after another the Superintendent drowned the sluggish sound of her retreating footsteps. "There goes my best nurse!" she said grimly. "My very best nurse! Oh no, not the most brilliant one, I didn't mean that, but the most reliable!
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