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Someone must have said some pretty dangerous health spells over him then." He turned to Dave, as if aware that the other was comparatively ignorant of such matters. "Happened once before, without this mess-up of the signs. They revived a corpse and found he was unkillable from then on.
"Not bad for a raw Britisher put the boss conductor off his own train and held up the Vancouver mail! Say, what are you going to do with him, sonny?" "He can get up, and learn to be civil," I answered grimly; and when the man did so, sullenly, the other said: "Well, I don't want any mess-up with the brakeman, so we may as well walk out now that they're coming back for him.
I signed to Marigold, who had carried me into the ward and set me down on a chair, and to the Sister, the "dear lady" of Dacre's reference, to withdraw, and after a few sympathetic words I asked him why he had sent for me. "I'm broken to bits all over," he replied. "The doctors here say they never saw such a blooming mess-up of flesh pretending to be alive.
He thought he guessed what she was thinking and feeling; he thought he was pretty sure she was thinking and feeling that her beloved Columbus had gone from her, and gone to a stranger, in a day, in a few hours, to a stranger she had never even seen, never even heard of; that her Columbus had had secrets from her, had been doing things behind her back; that she had had perfect faith and trust in her twin, and now was tasting the dreadful desolation of betrayal; and he also guessed that she must be sick with fears, for he knew how responsible she felt, how seriously she took the charge of her beautiful twin sick with fear about this unknown man, sick with the feeling of helplessness, of looking on while Columbus rushed into what might well be, for all any one knew, a deadly mess-up of her happiness.
The man I knew lived next door and was a damned good chap. The man I knew chucked up his business and left his home and risked his life because everybody was doing it, because it seemed there was a real mess-up, because one had to. Also, it was a change.
"There's been a mess-up somewhere and I was looking for a clean run home." "Home, dear?" "Um! Back to London. How's mother's old car going, Flora?" "Tiptop." "Good, I shall need it. I say, I apologise for not saying how-de-do but things have been moving today. Everyone feeling good? Fine. Lord, I'm tired." And he passed a hand tied with a bloodstained handkerchief across his brow. Mrs.
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