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Edgar wrote a long letter to his father. An hour after he had done so he left, taking it and the trader's packet away with him. These he placed in the headquarter-staff mail-bag.
He spoke first of the offer to go on the headquarter-staff which he had refused. Then of the strange accidents by which he had become heir presumptive to the earldom of Essendine. Last of all, of the narrow escape he had of his life. Hyde pressed him on this point. "You fell overboard lost your balance, eh? Entirely your own doing? Mrs. Wilders did not help you at all?"
"Was there no talk in the enemy's lines of an expected assault?" asked another. "I do not know." "You must know. You are on the headquarter-staff of the British army." "Who told you so? You have always denied my claim to be treated as an English officer." "Because you are a traitor to your own country. But it is as I say.
Many of the headquarter-staff came too, and Colonel Blythe was constantly at his bedside. On the second day the bullet was removed from the leg, and from that moment the symptoms became more favourable. Fever abated, and the wounds looked as though they would heal "at the first intention."
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