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He hastily leaned a hand on each wheel, and was rewarded by the "whish" of the what was left of air escaping from eighteen neat pin-holes. "Your bike's run down," said Robert, wondering how he could so soon have learned to deceive. "So it is," said Cyril. "It's a puncture," said Anthea, stooping down, and standing up again with a thorn which she had got ready for the purpose. "Look here."
And there was that on Mahbub Ali which he did not wish to keep an hour longer than was necessary a wad of closely folded tissue-paper, wrapped in oilskin an impersonal, unaddressed statement, with five microscopic pin-holes in one corner, that most scandalously betrayed the five confederated Kings, the sympathetic Northern Power, a Hindu banker in Peshawur, a firm of gun-makers in Belgium, and an important, semi-independent Mohammedan ruler to the south.
Even the stars seemed to withdraw themselves against the blue-black of the sky. They diminished and receded till they were like pin-holes in the vault above him. The moon in mid-heaven shrank into a bit of burnished silver, hard and glittering, immeasurably remote.
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