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The pipe was lit, so I suppose I must have lighted it mechanically, and I found that I had also mechanically changed into my lounging-coat. I glanced at my watch and saw that it was nearly four o'clock. The top of my head was burning as though with fever, and I went into the bathroom and turned the cold water on it.
It gave me the feeling that his intelligence was relaxed, too! He picked up his own coat, but I stopped him. "Don't put that on," I said, speaking to him as I would have spoken to a child. "The sleeve is blood-stained and there's a long tear down the side. Take this one," and I held out the light lounging-coat Godfrey had brought with him.
The night-breeze ruffled the curtains at the windows, and filled the room with the cool odour of the woods how different it was from the odour of dirty asphalt! But I was in no mood to linger there I wanted an explanation of that strange light and of those two white-robed figures. So I paused only to open my grip, change into a lounging-coat, and brush off the dust of the journey.
As Dick closed the door he was conscious of a rustling behind him, and he turned smartly, to find himself face to face with the great lieutenant, gorgeous now in shawl-pattern smoking-trousers and purple velvet lounging-coat. "Now for it!" he thought.
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