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The Upas Tree

CHAPTER V
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I suppose you easily convinced your friend that his diagnosis was rubbish ?" "Of course I did.

I told him I had never felt better in my life.

But I drank the stuff he gave me, simply to save further bother; also another dose which he brought to the hotel.

Then he insisted on leaving a bottle out of which I am to take a dose every three hours on the journey home.
I did not know old Dick was such a crank." "Probably it is the result of sitting in a tub and being scrubbed with a dish-cloth.

Did he know you were coming here ?" "Yes; he picked up my pocket-book, found your address, and made a note of it.


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