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The Wrong Box

CHAPTER II
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If you can do no more, you can carry a stretcher.' The doctor was hardly gone before Morris, under the spur of the dram, awoke to the full possession of his wits.
'My God!' he cried.

'Uncle Joseph!' 'Yes,' said John, 'where can he be?
He can't be far off.

I hope the old party isn't damaged.' 'Come and help me to look,' said Morris, with a snap of savage determination strangely foreign to his ordinary bearing; and then, for one moment, he broke forth.

'If he's dead!' he cried, and shook his fist at heaven.
To and fro the brothers hurried, staring in the faces of the wounded, or turning the dead upon their backs.

They must have thus examined forty people, and still there was no word of Uncle Joseph.


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