[The Right of Way<br> Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link book
The Right of Way
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CHAPTER X
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When he had finished he patted Jo's shoulder.
"I am always thirsty," he said.

"I shall be hungry too.

I always am." Jo brought him some milk and bread in a bowl.

When the sick man had eaten and drunk the bowlful to the last drop and crumb, he lay back with a sigh of content, but trembling from weakness and the strain, though Jo's hand had been under his head, and he had been fed like a little child.
All day he lay and watched Jo as he worked, as he came and went.
Sometimes he put his hand to his head and said to Jo: "It hurts." Then Jo would cool the wound with fresh water from the mountain spring, and he would drag down the bowl to drink from it greedily.
It was as though he could never get enough water to drink.

So the first day in the hut at Vadrome Mountain passed without questioning on the part of either Charley Steele or his host.
With good reason.


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