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Mary Gray

CHAPTER XI
16/22

"Marry Bob Drummond! Why, it is the last thing in the world I should dream of doing." One evening, just at the end of the season, someone brought the latest lion to a small reception at Lady Agatha Chenevix's.

He was a very modest and retiring lion, a quiet, very bronzed young man, who wore his arm in a sling.

He had had his shoulder torn in an encounter with an African leopard.

He had fought almost hand to hand with the beast over the body of a Kaffir servant, and had rescued the man at the cost of his own life, it seemed at first, later on of his right arm.

It was doubtful whether the strength and vitality of it would ever be restored.
He was not merely a brave man, however, this Mr.Jardine.He had gone to the Gold Coast, and from there into Central Africa, inspired, in the first place, by the desire of knowledge and love of adventure.


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