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" But to Dodd and his entertainer,
all this amenity of the tropic night, and all these
dainties of the island table, were grown things of
custom; and they fell to meat like men who were hungry,
and drifted into idle talk like men who were a trifle
bored.
The scene in the club was referred to.
"I never heard you talk so much nonsense, Loudon," said
the host.
"Well, it seemed to me there was sulphur in the air, so
I talked for talking," returned the other. "But it was
none of it nonsense."
"Do you mean to say it was true?" cried Havens--"that
about the opium and the wreck, and the blackmailing,
and the man who became your friend?"
"Every last word of it," said Loudon.
"You seem to have been seeing life," returned the
other.
"Yes, it's a queer yarn," said his friend; "if you
think you would like, I'll tell it you."
Here follows the yarn of Loudon Dodd, not as he told it
to his friend, but as he subsequently wrote it.
THE YARN



CHAPTER I


A SOUND COMMERCIAL EDUCATION
THE beginning of this yarn is my poor father's
character.


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