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The Last Chapter 



*' Did more worship in the open air, under the broad 

 ciborium of heaven, the social standards of health and 

 morality would rise simultaneously." 



R. G. PEARSON. 



| OW about your little No. 8 

 shot on ducks, Seth?" 

 ^ asked Doctor Bradley 

 of his young friend, who had 

 finished his homely midday meal 

 in the tiny cabin of the sloop and was 

 cutting off the end of a great black cigar 

 Doctor Corbin had helped him to out of 

 the sportsmen's leather case. 



Old Grieb was tugging away at various 

 ropes and other things in the decoy hole 

 in an endeavor to make room for the 

 single battery to be taken aboard as soon 

 as the double machine was fully adrift. 

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