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The Firing Line

CHAPTER XX
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Look at him tagging after the doctors and bawling for pills!--with Garry lying there! He hustled him into a cottage, too--" "He was quite right, Jim, Garry is better off--" "So's William.

Don't tell _me_, Constance; he's always been the same; he never really cared for anybody in all his life except Louis Malcourt.
But it's a jolly, fat, good-humoured beast, and excellent company aboard the _Ariani!_" ...

He was silent a moment, then his voice deepened to a clear, gentle tone, almost tender: "You've been rained on enough, now; come in by the fire and I'll bring you the latest news from Garry." But when he returned to the fire where Constance and Portlaw sat in silence, the report he brought was only negative.

A third doctor from Albany arrived at nightfall and left an hour later.

He was non-committal and in a hurry, and very, very famous..


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