CHAPTER LXX. 



ATTACKED IN FRONT AND REAR. 



THE temperature continued so 

 high during the afternoon that Mr. 

 Godkin decided to defer 

 anything in the nature of 

 a systematic hunt 

 for curiosities. 

 He had such faith 

 in Jed's ability 

 that he wished his 

 presence if pos- 

 sible during the 

 most important 

 efforts of himself 

 and Dick. 



The latter found the idleness so irk- 

 some, that he ventured off on a little 

 tour of his own, leaving the natives 

 asleep and the director smoking his 

 hookah and about ready to follow them 

 into the land of dreams. 



When young Brownell was alone in 



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