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I have work to do. You are dearer to me to-day, my child, than you wereupon the last anniversary of this birthday; you were dearer then than youwere a year before; y Let us drink to another resounding success, I remarked, raising my glass. In the mean time the rain had washed away the top of the pan of earththey had left standing on the hillside, and exposed a handful of nuggets-pure gold.

Kadija and two of her daughters took up permanent residence, sitting with Selim and keeping the children under close surveillance. --[This remarkable and amusingdocument will be found under Appendix M, at the end of last volume. Sssh, he whispered. altogether it was ahard, nerve-racking experience, climbing the arid hills of Palestine inthat torrid summer heat.