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An Outback Marriage

CHAPTER XXII
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Well, good-night for the present.

He looks a little better since you washed him, doesn't he ?" He threw himself on the couch in the inner room, and before long a titanic snore showed that he had not over-rated his sleeping powers.
Ellen Harriott sat by Red Mick's bedside and thought over the events of the last few weeks.

As she thought she half-dozed, but woke with a start to find her patient broad awake again and trying to get at something that was under his bunk.

Quietly she drew him back, for his struggles with Carew had left him weak as a child.
He looked at her with crazed eyes.
"The paper," he said, "for the love of God, the paper.

I have to take it to Gavan.


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