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Updated: June 27, 2025
It had been transferred to a huge, glass-paneled tank which had been set up just outside Tom's Fearing Island laboratory during his flight to the Florida Keys. "Reckon I kin try makin' friends with it," Chow declared. The porpoise stared morosely at Chow. The kindly old Texan's heart was touched by the odd creature.
There were trails leading to the room with the glass-paneled door marked "Private" which he half feared to pursue. Thus, between father and son remained that indefinable chasm of thought and habit which filial duty or politeness could not bridge.
She waited, dazed by the instant success of her ruse, while he disappeared under the veranda. She heard his feet upon the stairs. She heard him come striding down the hall to the glass-paneled door. She saw him coming toward her, still grinning in his joy at the meeting. "Jean Douglas! By all that's lucky!" he was exclaiming. "Where in the world did you light down from?"
And Mortimer's words were sweet, while the words of the farewell from the other side of the glass-paneled door marked "Private" were acrid with the disappointed hopes of the speaker. "You have always been a weakling, Jack, and I have had little to say about your rearing.
Even Norman, the trusted lieutenant, was cut out of his employer's confidence; and for hours on end in the business day the card "Not in" would be displayed on the glass-paneled door of the private room in the rebuilt office. Not to make a mystery of it for ourselves, Tom had passed another milestone in the descent to the valley of lost souls.
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