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[Aeschlimann C. <pel...@vr...>]

Reputation in this asylum; people stood ready to take him at his word,
without that. I resumed. "I've known Merlin seven hundred years, and
he--" "Seven hun--" "Don't interrupt me. He has died and come alive
again thirteen times, and traveled under a new name every time: Smith,
Jones, Robinson, Jackson, Peters, Haskins, Merlin--a new alias every
time he turns up. I knew him in Egypt three hundred years ago; I knew
him in India five hundred years ago--he is always blethering around in
my way, everywhere I go; he makes me tired. He don't amount to shucks,
as a magician; knows some of the old common tricks, but has neve