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Dawn of All

CHAPTER VII
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Is there anything----" "Why, there's the very thing," interrupted the monk.

(He fumbled in his pocket a moment.) "Yes, here's the leaflet that was issued last night." (He held out a printed piece of paper to Monsignor.) "Read that through." The prelate took it.
"What's the case ?" he asked.
"The leaflet will give you the details.

It's decay of the optic nerve--a Russian from St.Petersburg.Both eyes completely blind, the nerves destroyed, and he saw light yesterday for the first time.

He'll be down from the Russian hospice about eleven.

We expect a cure to-day or to-morrow." "Well," said Father Jervis, "we mustn't detain you.


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