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`` By George , Kit , the child is beginning to reason out things , '' he jested . Winnie laughed , and so did Kathlyn , but she did so because occultly she felt that her father expected her to laugh . She was positively uncanny sometimes in her perspicacity . `` On December thirty-first , at midnight , '' she repeated . `` All right , father . You must write to us at least once every fortnight . '' `` I 'll cable from Singapore , from Ceylon , and write a long letter from Allaha .