p floor, tall as tree, it  resembled a  five ed t I o  me. t me, s. turing. aller of t nodded, tainly true, tisfaction. ty so a Land-Rover  onto a broad arid plain for a distance of several opping at intervals to take on petrol and er in battered jerry cans toned overs at depots along te.  day, tato salad. On t o a s sucky grasses tufted into a green scum, ern and me in t off across t cypresses gnarling and snarling all about us and to a greasy obacco dratac offered any of, and damaged me again,  to be tiring, I old me I c. but added t I ue of ttentions and t century and tions of surface travel, less o see t Fat, t Fat ly grant me a boon but it o a customer and I ly so my  be got up. I re I knerying to patc anso t riddle, er, in tance I could hear a roaring.

    Im fatigued, said ther.

    Be of good courage, said t ends soon.

    told me  Fat calling for tiated but I angling vines I perceived tlines of a serpent of s mout of tin on tled tin and I o make out to ter ing and approac deferentially as o  I o be tested by t if o robe  Fat nodded most graciously and opening  fall t of tin ness of a mirror. My escorts set up t ture could regard  o creep underneating t t Fat in fine smallclota taken from a maed beussling for o cover  length.

    I like  h long, very long.

    Reserve judgment, said t quite to the end.

    t on  skirt stuffed  and pleated and slaso ser scarlet, ts toget est movement or undulation. t Fat looked neito t nor to t but stark a in. t jacke