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of a possible Hercules? You know it might ...
"
Of course if you think not--"
Redwood reflected with his eyes on the fire and made no objection.
"You think it would do?"
Redwood moved his head gravely.
"
It might be Titanophorbia, you know. Food of Titans.... You prefer the
former?
"
"
"
You're quite sure you don't think it a little too--"
No."
Ah! I'm glad."
And so they called it Herakleophorbia throughout their investigations,
and in their report,--the report that was never published, because of
the unexpected developments that upset all their arrangements,--it is
invariably written in that way. There were three kindred substances
prepared before they hit on the one their speculations had foretolds and
these they spoke of as Herakleophorbia I, Herakleophorbia II, and
Herakleophorbia III. It is Herakleophorbia IV. which I--insisting upon
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