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He wasin his early forties, a lean, tough-muscled man who walked up to thegrayhaired dancer, took her by the hands and swung her Then he laughed at himself: My successorwill never have seen the savanna or known what a splendid part ofnature it had been. ” “I believe He has,” Paxmore said, and the two men talked through the night. SoI'll be able to use quite a few things from here.

Then it would vanish. Down here in Florida thewonderful bodies of water, perfect climate, the palms, the trees lowand sort of scrubby, the land flat as a table. As a child he had watched what happened to men declared outcasts, and he had no desire to experi­ence what they had suffered: the isolation, the scorn, the bitter loneliness. he Palms, that they clustered about him asif they were his children coming close to feed from his outstretchedhand.