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happen to us. If we can give you any help about the place—"
"Tush, tush!" said Mr. Flagg. "You are doing me a favor. I like to let my tongue wag sometimes, and I 've got nobody to talk to up there but Kanakas."
"By the way, we 've got a Kanaka that we 're taking along with us," Tempest said, nodding his head in Jim's direction. "If you would n't mind giving him a shake-down too—"
"Sure! Bring him right along. This reminds me of old times Why, my house was Liberty Hall when I lived in Dogtooth City. I remember once—"
Mr. Flagg talked on as his skinny pony walked in leisurely fashion over the brow of a hill, along a lane between the waving trees of the plantation, and finally to a rambling house with a wide veranda running all round it.
"Here we are," said Mr. Flagg. "And when I tell you you 're the first people I have had stay-
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