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The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER IV
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Whymper was on the touch-line--I saw him.

The 'Varsity's certain to try you again on Saturday." "I've been slack too long," Olva said, laughing.

"I never enjoyed anything more than this afternoon." "I played the most miserable game I've ever played--couldn't get this beastly thing out of my head." Olva felt as though he were almost at the end of his endurance.

At that moment he thought that he would have preferred them to burst the doors and arrest him.

He had never known such fatigue.


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