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She didn't try to fend me away, or struggle at all, and not a word did I utter, but stood holding her the babe asleep beside us and listened to her breathing until it grew easier, and she leaned to me, weak as water. "Then I let go, and lifting the child's head from the pillow pulled Aoodya's charm, the cocoanut pearl, from my neck and hung it about his.
"I fell almost at the heels of Aoodya's enemy, upon a ledge along which he was swiftly running her down. Hamid's bullet had missed him, and before I could make the third in the chase he was forty yards ahead. I saw his bare shoulders parting the creepers threading their way in and out like a bobbin, and jogging as the pace fell slower; for now we were all three in difficulties.
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