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"If they'd caught sight of me, I wouldn't have got much chance to explain about myself, let alone you. It kind of occurred to me that strangers found loafing around in the woods wouldn't get much of an opening for polite conversation just now especially if those strangers were fellows who had come down from Sillinger's camp with letters only a fortnight ago."
"And what was his mood when he gave it to you?" "Why, it was what you might call the Madeira mood his old accustomed temper. He had the hiccoughs, I recall, when he spoke with me. Most generally he does have them. Yet, speak the truth and shame the devil! he is sober two days to that Colonel Sillinger's one. If their expedition fails, it won't be for want of rum.
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