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The Vanished Messenger

CHAPTER X
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"There are other things in the world besides games.

There is the real, the tragical side of life, the duties one takes up, the obligations of honour.

You have not forgotten, young man, the burden you carry ?" The boy was paler, but he had drawn himself to his full height.
"I have not forgotten, sir," he answered bitterly.

"Do I show any signs of forgetting?
Haven't I done your bidding year by year?
Aren't I here now to do it ?" "Then do it!" Mr.Fentolin retorted sharply.

"When I am ready for you to leave here, you shall leave.


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