As It Was in the Beginning (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from As It Was in the Beginning

Grenville was not the type to be readily excited, yet a glow of exceptional brilliance shone in his eyes as he met the searching gaze of his friend, and wondered if Fenton could be jesting.

That he had made no reply whatsoever to Fenton's proposition he failed to realize till Gerald spoke again.

Well, Sid, demanded that impetuous lieutenant of finance, gone dumb? Perhaps I haven't made it plain, and he particularized on his fingers. You get an ocean trip of eight or ten weeks' duration, tropic sun at its best, leisurely business without a fleck of bother, absolute rest, good provender, thorough recuper ation, your entire expenses cheerfully paid, vast service rendered to me, no time lost on your equilibrator, time for countless new inventions to sprout in your fertile brain - and the unutterable joy of escaping this abom inable climate, practically at once!

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