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Do you deny this?"
"Not at all. I have seen enough of their system to realize its extreme
simplicity."
"And then think of the peculiar history of this island and its
situation as a converging-point for men of every race and every creed.
All these things stimulate to rapid nervous discharges; that is, to
inconsidered, foolish actions--"
"All fools!" the boatman interrupted. "All foreigners! We people don't
do these things. Only dam-fool foreigners. That so, gentlemens. They
have trouble themselves, then they come to this rock and, boom! make
trouble for their friends."
"Boom!" echoed his son, who had apparently caught the drift of the old
man's speech. Whereat the two Greek genii in the stern laughed
immoderately; knowing, as they did, that the boy had not the slightest
idea of what his father was talking about.
"Boom!" they repeated, in derisive chorus.
At that moment all the occupants of the boat pricked up their ears. A
sound had reached them, a similar sound--a sound that recalled the
distant firing of a big gun.


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