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The Ivory Child

CHAPTER XV
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And yet both of us heard her say, very low but quite clearly: 'The mountain, George! Don't desert me.

Seek me on the mountain, my dear, my husband.'" "Well, what next ?" "I sprang up and she was gone.

That's all." "Now tell me what _you_ saw and heard, Savage." "What his lordship saw and heard, Mr.Quatermain, neither more nor less.
Except that I was awake, having had one of my bad dreams about snakes, and saw her come through the door." "Through the door! Was it open then ?" "No, sir, it was shut and bolted.

She just came through it as if it wasn't there.

Then I called to his lordship after she had been looking at him for half a minute or so, for I couldn't speak at first.


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