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Marie

CHAPTER X
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Then we made some soup, and poured that down his throat with more brandy, and the end of it was he came to life again.
For three days did I doctor that man, and really I believe that if at any time during those days I had relaxed my attentions even for a couple of hours, he would have slipped through my fingers, for at this business Klaus and the Kaffirs were no good at all.

But I pulled him round, and on the third morning he came to his senses.

For a long while he stared at me, for I had laid him in the mouth of the cave, where the light was good, although the overhanging rocks protected him from the sun.

Then he said: "Allemachte! you remind me of someone, young man.

I know.


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