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Hilda Wade

CHAPTER XI
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Him Eulopean foleigner." "A European foreigner!" I repeated.

"And you say he is seriously ill?
Plague is no trifle.

Well, wait a minute; I'll see what the ladies say about it.

How far off is your village ?" He pointed with his hand, somewhat vaguely, to the hillside.

"Two hours' walk," he answered, with the mountaineer's habit of reckoning distance by time, which extends, under the like circumstances, the whole world over.
I went back to the tents, and consulted Hilda and Lady Meadowcroft.


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