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Snake and Sword

CHAPTER VII
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Dr.
Jones prescribed bed and "complete mental and bodily rest".

He said he would "send something," and in a cloud of wise words disguised the fact that he did not in the least know what to do.

It was not in his experience that a healthy young Hercules, sound as a bell, without spot or blemish, should behave like an anaemic, neurotic girl....
Dam passed the night in the unnameable, ghastly hell of agony that he knew so well and that he wondered to survive.
In the morning he received a note from Sir Gerald Seymour Stukeley.

It was brief and clear:--"Sandhurst is scarcely the place for a squealing coward, still less the Army.

Nor is there room for one at Monksmead.


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