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Reclining each on a bunk, with a slush-lamp on a stand of bark between them, were two men. They were Magnus Susman and Jabez Gegg, and the place was Badginbilly. Both were smoking, and talking in subdued tones.
"I didn't think old Merton was so sharp as to suspect where it had gone."