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I drew my electric-flash, and shielding its rays from my face, looked at him. His sleep was changing from the heavy stupor of the drug into one that was at least on the borderland of the normal. The tongue had lost its arid blackness and the mouth secretions had resumed action. Satisfied as to his condition I returned to deck.
Marquis also heard it and he plunged into the thick bushes. Almost immediately we were at the spot, and before us some heavy object turned in the leaves. Marquis whipped an electric-flash out of his pocket.
Marquis was sitting on the flat stones with a cigarette in his fingers: "Good heavens, man," I cried, "you're not stopping to smoke a cigarette?" "Not this cigarette, at any rate," he replied. "Madame Barras has already smoked it.... I can, perhaps, find you the burnt match." He got the electric-flash out of his pocket, and stooped over. Immediately he made an exclamation of surprise.
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