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Yet even within a few days of the end his brain kept an astonishing clearness: and to me, as well as to the friends who visited him in hospital and afterwards in his Plymouth lodgings for he never returned home again, being unable to face another railway journey he would maintain, and with astonishing vigour and lucidity of description, that he had actually in very truth travelled down the valley in company with Sir John Crang, and seen with his own eyes everything related in the foregoing paper.
He took the paper and unfolded it, but either the light was dim within the store, or the handwriting hard to decipher. "Would your Reverence read it out for us?" Parson Spettigew carried the paper to the doorway. He read its contents aloud, and slowly: To Mr. Bill Adams, Capt. of the Fore-top, H.M.S. Vesuvius. Sir, It was a dummy Capt. Crang buried.
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