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experience - and beats winning a big contract for cars quite out of sight.  In dealing with these Eastern devils ones imagination is really stirred; then, too, the environment is in keeping.  

In America, the same individuals and quest would be impossible!  The blazing sun, the Oriental colors, the crooked trails about Gezeh, the veiled but still queerly unveiled women, the strange home-life, the quaint hospitality, the kind of courtesy offered by the head of the house, the thirst for gold; what it will buy, is all wonderful to a novice like myself.  Money never seemed to display its power to me, until I made the acquaintance of this new side partner of "my family" - old Ali Arabi.

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With all high wishes to you and yours, Always sincerely yours C.L.F. [[/marginalia]]