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The Tragedy of The Korosko

CHAPTER IX
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Get up on the rocks presently, and you'll see a lovely sight.

No time to stop, for we shall be in action again in five minutes.

Anything I can do before I go ?" "You haven't got such a thing as a cigar ?" asked the Colonel wistfully.
Archer drew a thick satisfying partaga from his case, and handed it down, with half-a-dozen wax vestas.

Then he cantered after his men, and the old soldier leaned back against the rock and drew in the fragrant smoke.

It was then that his jangled nerves knew the full virtue of tobacco, the gentle anodyne which stays the failing strength and soothes the worrying brain.


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