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Greenmantle

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
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The face was very white but there was no wound or bruise on it.
'She was killed at once,' I heard him saying.

'Her back was broken by a shell-fragment.

Dick, we must bury her here ...

You see, she ...
she liked me.

I can make her no return but this.' We set the Companions to guard, and with infinite slowness, using our hands and our knives, we made a shallow grave below the eastern parapet.


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