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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 2: A Strange Bringing Up
18/48

I must think it over, and make enquiries." It was three days, indeed, before anything came of Soyera's visits to the Parsee trader; then he said: "I think that I have found out just the place of which you are in search.

I spoke to a friend yesterday, and he at once mentioned one whom I wonder I had not thought of, at once.

Some years ago a cadet, who came out here with a young wife, died shortly after his arrival.

As he had only been four years in the service, the pension of his wife was but a small one.

She did not go back to England, as widows generally do.


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