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Ikey laughed, impressed at her quick calculation. By the time she got to her back porch the rain was slackening and the sun was already striking little rainbows through the sparkle of drops that still fell. It was just like them to puii such a stunt at the time when it was least appropriate--just the kind of thing they had done all through their years as Rangers. It up now, the gov'ner will be on 'is way soon!' a gruffI demanded.

'I expects not, guv, there were no cart. Not only did they possess the money from both the Merryweather and the Sturmvogel, but they cleared nearlytwenty pounds on the bets placed by the drinkers. Even on those rare occa;sions when she had taken him to her bed, there had been I bo thought of love. This convenient arrangement may well have beenbeyond the talents of a man less enterprising than IkeySolomon, who had heard abo