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The Virginians

CHAPTER XIII
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A sharper pain than that of the fever Mr.
Washington declared he felt, when he saw Harry Warrington, and could give him no news of George.
Mr.Washington did not dare to tell Harry all.

For three days after the fight his duty had been to be near the General.

On the fatal 9th of July, he had seen George go to the front with orders from the chief, to whose side he never returned.

After Braddock himself died, the aide-de-camp had found means to retrace his course to the field.

The corpses which remained there were stripped and horribly mutilated.
One body he buried which he thought to be George Warrington's.


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