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The Vanished Messenger

CHAPTER VI
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The whole atmosphere of the place breathed comfort and refinement.

The only thing of which he did not wholly approve was the face of the nurse who rose silently to her feet at his murmured question: "Where am I ?" She felt his forehead, altered a bandage for a moment, and took his wrist between her fingers.
"You have been ill," she said.

"There was a railway accident.

You are to lie quite still and not say a word.

I am going to fetch the doctor now.
He wished to see you directly you spoke." Mr.Dunster dozed again for several moments.


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