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"What are you running for? " shouted Bill Stout, as Raimundo and Bark Lingall ran ahead of him after the party landed from the felucca. "We are all right now."
Bill could not quite get rid of the idea that he was the leader of the expedition, as he intended to be from the time when he began to make his wicked plans for the destruction of the Tritonia. He had the vanity to believe that he was born to command, and not to obey; and such are generally the very worst of leaders.