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"As when a Gryfon through the wilderness, With wingéd course o'er Hill or moarie Dale, Pursues the Arimaspian. " - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost.
I can tell this story out of the fullest knowledge, for Reggie Daker had long made it a habit to pour out to me his inmost mind. But he was such an inconsequent being that it was not always easy to follow the involutions of that mind. So if my narrative has ragged edges it is because of its principal figure, who had a genius for discontinuity.