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And all this work may prove an anodyne to pain of another kind.

It will help, at any rate, to keep my mind occupied whilst I am waiting for another visit from my Lady of the Shroud.
RUPERT'S JOURNAL--_Continued_.
_May_ 18, 1907.
The two weeks that have passed have been busy, and may, as time goes on, prove eventful.

I really think they have placed me in a different position with the Blue Mountaineers--certainly so far as those in this part of the country are concerned.

They are no longer suspicious of me--which is much; though they have not yet received me into their confidence.