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"Exactly like Cumberledge's.... But Cumberledge is dead... I must be delirious.... If I didn't KNOW to the contrary, I could have sworn it was Cumberledge's!" I spoke again, bending over him. "How long have the glandular swellings been present, Professor?" I asked, with quiet deliberativeness. This time he opened his eyes sharply, and looked up in my face. He swallowed a great gulp of surprise.
"Your pulse is weak and very rapid," I said slowly, in a professional tone. "You seem to me to have fallen into a perilous condition." At the sound of my voice, he gave a sudden start. Yet even so, for a second, he did not open his eyes. The revelation of my presence seemed to come upon him as in a dream. "Like Cumberledge's," he muttered to himself, gasping.
It might lead to misconceptions; people might suppose we were more than fellow-travellers. "You have had relations in Burma?" Lady Meadowcroft persisted. I manifested a desire to discontinue the conversation. "Yes," I answered, coldly, "my uncle commanded there." "Commanded there! Really! Ivor, do you hear? Dr. Cumberledge's uncle commanded in Burma."
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