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Come in Welcome. I'm g Marshall. Many of our best writers have ventured

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into the world of the macabre.
One of them was the man who knew

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nineteenth century India better than any other
Rudyard Killing. Our story is an adaptation

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of At the end of the passage, a man by the name of Hummel,

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his assistant engineer in charge of building
a section of the Guadahari railroad line.

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Every Sunday free friends visit him in
his shabby ramshackle cottage to play cards,

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gossip and share a meal. In
summer, the heat is sulfree and

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oppressive. It is night one hundred
and one degrees. Hummel seems to be

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possessed with him is a doctor a
friend named Spursto. I gave you Morphia,

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humble not enough, Spursto, I
must have more. I can't sleep,

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I have slept for a week.
I can't run fast enough. Do

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you watch? Can't run fast enough? What does that mean? Huba understands

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my houseboy. If I sleep only
a little, I can't run fast enough.

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Please Spursto Morphia so I can run. Our mystery story at the end

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of the passage by Rudyard Kipling was
adapted especially from Mystery Theater by Roy windsor

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his Stars John Beale. It is
sponsored in part by contact the twelve hour

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Cold Capsule. I'll be back shortly
where that India in the nineteenth century.

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The smell of the bazaars, the
rains, the heat of the sun's corched

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earth, all seen and recorded unerringly
by Kipling, a man born in Bombay

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and who spoke Intostani. India then
was more a continent than a country.

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England built roads and railroads under great
difficulties. One of the rail lines being

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built in the northwest was the Quadihari
line. Hummel came out years ago and

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was assistant engineer of the project.
Doctor Spurstow was medical chief, endlessly alert

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to cholera. A man named Loans
was civil service, and Muttram was from

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Theme in survey office. Three men
who on Sundays sought each other's company as

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Hummel awaits them, um, where
the devil are you? I him here

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safe? So you are your light
down, Mustard? Perhaps I should bring

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me a soda water human Doctor sprust
All, where you make your way?

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I am well, there's nothing wrong
with me, it's the heat. I

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just can't sleep. No civilized man
can sleep on its one hundred and four.

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I bring you his shoulder. Whatever
it has been, no good fans,

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hardly moving. You need much rest
as no time for rest? Work

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heat too. But about Shah givens, I'll sit on the veranda and wait

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for them to ride up. Go
about your business. Make certain the dinners

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good, or I'll skin your life
his mustar. Hello, hummle, why

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are you sitting out here? You're
as readers a reddish on? Come ince,

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purse of lounge? Where's Mottram still
in the desert? Couldn't make it?

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Why not? What will we do
about twist? Inconsiderate of him?

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Cut the Indian survey off a spare
him one day while he does have to

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come a hundred miles by rail and
thirty more by heart. Or come in,

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Come in, heard, harden Mottram. Don't forget that I left a

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cholera stricken camp of coolies to look
after those sailors for forty eight hours.

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I am overwhelmed for your sacrifice.
Have you got a bad in your class?

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What is the battle with your bastday? Never mind his bad man as

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loud as glass of barrel, coolest
or off. Maybe it would I have

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done. Oh dear, here ran
out. I've written and quired, but

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the trains don't come through regularly yet
the solar water, it's got any fresh

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reading material. Last week's gassetto India, my brother said art rather amusing this

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mount An MP speech to his constituents. I as said that the civil service

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in India is the preserve of the
aristocracy of England. The aristocracy takes good

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care to maintain their lavish scale of
income. That'll do as I've you three

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months paid to have that generalman spend
a month with me and see how one

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fails with the independent native king the
aristocracy, But rubbish old timbersides. The

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king ivan mind has three millions and
jewels and kins under his palace. And

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the state of the people is enough
to make you sick. What can I

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do? Nothing? Sooner be with
you, doctor, oh jew, I

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don't think so about fifteen deaths a
day, and the poor devils look at

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you though you ought to save them. Lord News, have tried everything.

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Hoard of the causes run run very
simply. Indeed, chlorodyne, opium pill,

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chlorodyne collapse, nighter bricks to the
feet, then the burning cat,

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the level of space, the head
of the stairs leading to the river where

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the bodies are cremated. And here
we are the aristocracy of England. Mister

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badbut Muttram, we need a fourceful
wrist. Hamilias the lucky man. He

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has an actual roof over his head. He sees one train a day.

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He has books, pictures and the
society of the excellent subcontractor Devin's besides the

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pleasure of receiving us weekly, said
Jevins stairs, my dear, can't we

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dig him up? Come? Oh? Yes, but he wouldn't be much

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good to us, and it would
be awkward. He passed on last Monday.

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Oh, I didn't know it would
be awkward to dig him up.

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You have a nasty sense of you. Muhammel hurried it, eh by his

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own hand. Cholera and fever.
Give a man a week's grace, As

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you know, m any explanation.
I judged no man in this weather.

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He had a touch of the sun. I imagine after your fellows had left,

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he came over and sat with me
on the verandah. He told me

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he was going home to see his
wife. He rambled on tediously and I

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got the apothecary in to look at
him, and we tried to make him

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ride down. After an hour or
two, he prupped his eyes and said

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he believed it had a fit.
Why this unusual? Interests Burstore? I

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liked him, man Dot. He
went to his bungalow and began cleaning a

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rifle. He told the servant he
was going to shoot back in the morning.

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Naturally, he fumbled with the trigger
and shut himself through the head accidentally,

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of course, that was the report. But a wired use bursto.

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If you could have done anything,
you're a queer one ham or if you'd

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kill the man yourself, you couldn't
have been more quiet about the business.

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What does it matter. I've got
a lot of his overseeing work to do

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in addition to my own. I'm
the only person who suffers. Javan's out

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of it by a pure accident,
of course, but out of it.

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Why didn't you let it go as
heirs hand? Well, there was no

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direct proof. A man hasn't many
privileges in this country, but he might

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at least be allowed to mishandle his
own rifle. That's an od way of

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puttings or somebody I may neither man
to smother up an accident to myself even

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let live die and let dye.
Look here you take a pill. Here

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you're white in the face. Liberative
order. One can't sleep? That's worse.

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Oh no, what do you take? Funny nothing? I had ten

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minutes sleep since Friday. Well,
i'll patch him up later on. Is

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he too much for a ride?
You think it's where too? We shall

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have to leave by aids? What
is what is that to do? Hammel?

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And what's set in the corner?
You see that under those papers and

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that remnant of class? Why have
you a musical turn? Looks our big

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bight? I wonder if it plays
as a wretched instruments? How did you

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come back? I can't remember humor
upon it. I should have discarded it

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long ago. It's been done.
Attach your vote? Can you play glory

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to thee my God this night for
all the blessings of the light that shows

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me really feel our blessing to say? Well, as an old Hyppo Christ,

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you leave that lead that him alone. It's associated in my mind with

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the most sacred recollections, summer evenings
in the country, stained glass windows,

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light going down, and you and
she jamming your hits together over one hym

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book. They'll do ham you'll see
it when you're seven. Fat was deep

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in hell. It's an insult to
the deity to pretend we're anything but tortured

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rebels. Take two pails. Hamo, you're in a vile temper. I'll

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go see to the dinner. Hey, fear must have de goot chaps as

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a very tough days. Hut.
Let me see why did you get this?

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Meet? Who's responsible for that?
You do not hunt for a book?

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And that you fool will have been
ill? Where did you get this

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execrable piece of high I ain't pay
for masister in the village, she raises,

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got some sense of very chief.
This isn't fit for eleven. You

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can see you meet humor. I
ought to give you a last of her.

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Please must have he will return to
money. Why his man? Stay

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out of this name. I'm leaving
and control yourself. He's been nasty and

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insulting. We arrived. He's not
well. You can see that he's Feverishire

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is no excuse to abuse a servant. I'm still supposed to be civilized men.

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Fever or not. None of us
has the right to treat the natives

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into mainly and Cuma's an exceptionally devoted
houseboy. Well what did you? What

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did you do to Tuma? Not
that it concerns you, lands, but

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I slapped you. He's been kicking
me. I can't hope you dinner.

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Well, it's just as well.
I'm leaving. I'll ride with you,

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or you're both riding off or not? Please please say I can find food

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murder, thank you? No,
I'm all. I don't know what's the

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matter with you, yut of what. I've enjoyed my Sunday visits, but

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not this one. You've been disagreeable
and insulting ever since we arrive. You're

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too dutchy, and you're rude and
scant of cassay. I thank you for

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your past hospitality. Coming up first
first, or please don't leave me.

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I'm not well all right? Oh, thank you? Thank you. I

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see you outlines, I feel I
feel faith. The heats come right back,

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doctor, I'll sir as I humble
for come. I believe he can't

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stay here as you please, Perhaps
he'll have an excellence. You are angry,

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yes, ready you watch yourself as
fast, honor. We couldn't do

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very well with aunt show. Would
I see you a week from now?

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And I dunno I darted art.
He'll be different once as well. I

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hope you'll reconsider hum well. I
may if I were used byst how I'd

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dismantle his guns killia. That's very
good of you to stay on first,

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or I'll have humor make up a
bed for you. How do you feel?

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I feel ill? I can't sleep, head, hot throat, feeling

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bertier pretty, for pity's sake,
give me something to put me to sleep,

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found sleep, if it's only for
six hours, If I would be

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able to sleep for days, I
can't stand it. But I am nearly

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mad. For a week, I've
had to sink and spell out every word

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that's comes from my lips. Isn't
that enough to drive a man mad?

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I can't see correctly, and I've
I've lost my sense of touch. My

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skin aches. Bake me sleep?
All right? All right? I look

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here, Wait a minute, man, you're pinching my arm. You're luck

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if you don't give me something worse. No, I didn't mean that.

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Don't be angry, spot, But
what's that? The silver case containing a

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Needle's the thing I hate to use. All I've heard at your arm.

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Now in a few minutes, the
more you will be in to work.

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Light down men, and wait,
I think I think I'm beginning to go

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off low. Oh, it's positively
heavenly suppost law. You must give me

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that case to keep. You must, you must, you must not on

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your life now, my friend,
sleeplessness of your kind is to relax the

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moral fiber and matters of life and
death. So I shall just take the

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liberty of spiking your guns. For
the British in India, who lived and

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worked in outposts of civilization, life
was arduous. The unrelenting heat was stability.

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The Indians, far from Bombay and
Calcutta were primitive. Life was temporary

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and cheap. To the credit of
the British, they worked hard to improve

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the life of the natives, all
the while trying hard to cling to their

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own more civilized ways, and sometimes
they cracked up. I'll return shortly with

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that. Men who live in the
temperate zone find it hard to adjust to

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living under a constant blazing sun,
to seasons of violent change, torrential rains,

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lent months of scorching heat. In
time, it weakens a man and

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muddles his mind. His moral fiber
weakens. He resents his isolation and may

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rebel against it by being abusive too. He came out to help. That

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undoubtedly was what happened to Hummel,
whom the jungle seems to have driven near

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mad doctor spurt or where is the
man? Ah? First? What the

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devil after my guns? Is he? What are you doing? May I

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ask her? You start with me? Well, I you'd hope, so

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you fool ah? You're lucid again. That's a good sign. Have you

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finished? Yes? I have.
I've taken the cartridges out of your twelve

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bore. I believe in taking precautions
when I'm with someone suffering from delirium.

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Such a man is not to be
trusted. Yeah, you seem better.

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Well, that morphia doesn't work generally. I'm quick as lightning, but you

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you clogged my feet. I was
nearly caught lore. You are what of

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our place? The place down here? I've been afraid of it for months.

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It's made every night a hell for
me, And yet I'm I'm not

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conscious of having done anything wrong.
And look here, I'll give you another

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dirt. We'll stop your nightmares.
Now tell me exactly what your trouble is,

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then will you put me to Sleep's
first off, put me quite to

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sleep. If you don't, I'll
be caught and die. I'll die.

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Tell me well, a blind face
that cries and can't wipe his eyes,

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A blind face that chases me down
corridors? Whose face I will put me

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to sleep? You have the silver
case? Yes, right here? You

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must go on? Leave how moo
as soon as possible? Were it occurs

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to me that unless I drink something, I shall go out before my time?

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Hot tea three four cups? Excellent
remedy against he had the pleasing doctor.

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Doctor sma, yes, but it's
late. I thought you'd left or

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gone to bed. Did he hurt
you? He said he would lush me.

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I did not cheat him, My
sister, I lush her for selling

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such old good meat. No fresh
meat. Master does not hunt for many

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days? Will you prepare some tea
for me? Chuma? Yes, I

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meet tea? Thank you? Are
you staying on? You're going to be

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wrong? I bring the tea?
Or he's a seat in her first time

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in long time, doctor years.
Perhaps I should have my tea on the

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veranda. Do not go on veranda? Jackals? Oh, jackals say yes,

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they come around. Oh yes,
muster, many jack courage will come.

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Why do you say that because those
from dark places are in cottage here?

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Well, perhaps you're right when I
shall have my tea in here if

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I may? Yes? Whatever or
should boil you? Hear jackals? Can

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you tell me what happened to Master
Jamins? He did? Oh? Yes,

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I know, shot in head?
Muster say, giving sir hip clean

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gun and did shoot him? He
very good hunter. So I understand?

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Who are those from the dark places? To evil spirits here in cottage?

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Maybe I go to the starry in
the village. No one from a dark

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places? There's oh good heavens?
Almost noon? Tuma, Tuma, yes,

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yes, yes, yes, must
have? Yes, yes, it's

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almost mid day. Why didn't you
awaken? Doctors are say your sleep?

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Why are you cowering? Are you
afraid of something? He stay? But

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do not lash me? Muster lash
you good jobs plenty, tough ship.

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I have no idea what you're talking
about. As a doctor with Mark m

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and Veranda not so hot today?
Oh that will be a blessing breakfast?

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Uma, yes, yes, must
have? How are you a good morning?

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Does it? A? Tuma asked
me not to lash. What's that

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about you laws you were off the
rail last night. Oh I don't remember.

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You must have had a touch of
the sun. You verhave very badly.

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Loudess was unforgiving when he rode off, or I'll apologize when he's here

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at Sunday. Look here, if
I write you a medical certificate, will

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you apply for leave on the spot
more? Why not? You want it?

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Or it won't be so bad now
that you've shown me the way.

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Morphia is an extreme measure. I
can't prescribe it as a regular measure.

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I can always wire you if I
become desperate. Besides, now that I've

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got into the way of sleeping,
it'll be all right. Oh you wouldn't

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trust me with your silver case,
which you've no I feel a new man

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laugh thanks to you, Spurst.
Or you'll returning to kapnow, well I

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must, but I'll try to look
you up every other day. Er.

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Just what did I do last night, Spursal, I's best forgot. I'd

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rather than know where you were quarrelsome
and insulting to us, including tumor.

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The chops were tough, and you
lost your temper with him and slapped it.

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You're fortunate, he didn't leave.
I am not a cruel man spursal,

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but any men can be provoked into
curly. And you were by that

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nightmare of yours. You must remember
that. Er I'd much rather forget it,

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and you should. Your daylight is
an attitote, and so is morphia,

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and so is sleep. You rely
on a good night's sleep, is

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yours? Come on now? Yeah, well goodbye, and do stay indoors.

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They heat's beginning to build up.
Since sufferable heat. Well, what

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in Heaven's name is that? Again? I always was before when I was

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suffering from over work, tumor tumor. Yes, muster, yes, oh

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better, you'll come out of some
see it. Look there on the veranda.

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He's not seeing you there, saying, of course there is. It's

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a figure of of my snuff.
You you are und the veranda. If

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the thing slides away from me,
all the one teasing, it's like a

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ghost held out only my eyes stomach
the out of water. But if it

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walks, my head is going.
I make hot tea preenty quick, muster

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help it we got inside? Yes, yes, keep smoking away from you,

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Sit down, I make hot tea. It's dessarving, like swimming specks

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in my eyes. The thing walked
away. My mind, my mind,

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it's going Master, Master, doctor, muster, doctor, What are you

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doing here? Chuma? I'm very
busy. Oh, Master, bad you

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come? No, no, no, I can't leave the men. Everyone

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needs my attention. Mustar she's self
dear delirium. He say, silver box

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and get way medicines out of the
question. Chuma, he's pega. Oh

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please, doctor, you make him
well. It can't help. I'm very

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sorry. Look, give him plenty
of hot tea and make him lie down.

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You're afraid he catch him. Go
to the apothecary, tell him to

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see Master Humble. I simply cannot
leave, Chuma, and do the best

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you can. I'll be by on
Sunday, not before only Truema. Master.

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Oh where's the doctor? No he
he not come, coolly sick doctor

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cannot leave. He come, he
sayd by end of week. I go

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to apocary. He say he not
come her. I'll have his bloody truth

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swine. Why did the apocary say
he wouldn't come? Not understand? Master?

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Did he say something about about Jevin's
dead buried somewhere? I know that?

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What did he say on later to
Jevins is dead and buried somewhere.

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What else did he say? On
nay him dead? He shot himself accidentally?

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Y? Yes, yes, yes, master, yes, Master,

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yes not should ring your spotting actor. I make key and pick shot dinner.

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I don't care what you're to look
up. You'll write on feel lots

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better, Master. It's walking through
the room. I am walking through the

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room. I see it walking away
because it's back to me, my figure.

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I see it. But and isn't
that blowns? Blowns? Jevins,

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as I recall, was a good
man with a rifle. Oh yes,

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quite expert an a man who is
good with arms. Accidentally himself? Oh

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yes, yes, accidentally. But
he wanted to write her advoss saying that

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it was you assigned. I remember
saying so to you insperso you all live

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because there was no evidence to prove
suicide. Did you'll morrow in the apothecary.

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I'm in charge of this section of
the railroad line. What you say

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is law in the sense, Yes, I am the law. You discovered

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the body, Yes, I land
his house boy. You saw Jemans the

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week before he appeared in good health. The onset of fever and cholera can

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be swift is suffered from cholera.
He was dead, but the symptom.

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No determination was made. Their apothecary
must have had an opinion. You'll have

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to ask him. There was no
autopsy out here. That's rare. Men

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go out like flies. Why are
you asking me all these questions? Lowance,

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last Sunday or acting veriest train.
I haven't slept for a long time.

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Yes, that could explaining. It
walked through this room, the figure,

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the figure of me, as if
I'd stepped out of my body.

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It walked past me, and then
it walked out. Oh my eyes,

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spots darted around in my eyes.
I tried paris my s longer. It's

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burst. I need you, Chia
Chuma, thank he I come. Regie

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must say. I'm frightened. No, no, muster, you'll stay out

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of shot. I can't run fast
enough for some loons are chasing me.

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Tell him not to chase me.
Telligence, yes, muster, yes,

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I tell him, rub any faster. My feet are heavy. I'm afraid

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to my priest. You're right,
arm Muster, you'll sleep. I can't

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sleep when a child runs out to
me. Muster a lounge, not here,

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not louds who said anything about lows
not louds. Some thing that chases

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be don't you understand? Yes,
yes, Muster yes, who who is

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it? Funal woes from dark places? Muster Man is resilient. His body

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can endure great hardships. What sustains
him is a sound, clear mind.

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When that slips for whatever reason,
his mind becomes his enemy. Physical pain

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is not as devastating as mental torments, and that is what has driven Humble

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to the edge of insanity. I
will return shortly with Act three. W

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J De Troy Regard Kipperling was born
in Bombay in eighteen sixty five. When

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he returned from school in England,
he was seventeen, and his father,

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then curator of the museum in Lahore, got him a job as assistant editor

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of the Civil and Military Gazette.
It was during his leisure that he began

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to write his stories of India.
His information was firsthand. Often at night,

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he said, he would wander till
dawn in all manner of odd places,

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in and about the narrow gullies under
the Mosque of Wazir Khan, and

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he met the soldiery. His stories
ring true. He knew his subjects,

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he knew Hummel. The following Sunday, Spurstoe reined in his horse and fa

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la la oh no bottom Awa that
he still stuck out in the desert.

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Hers pull up for a few minuts. He was like a cigarette her and

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a word about hum all. No, I was unable to visit him.

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That the coolies are too sick.
I didn't think i'd see you today,

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her, as I decided the last
minute. Any change out here is welcome,

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even if it means holding my tongue
when Hummel is a music and quite

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right too. Ernest had changed for
a day, and it's good for our

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pent up frustrations, as I have
plenty of those. As a doctor,

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you can do something for those who
are ill. I'm supposed to minister to

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the body politic. I tell you
what. It's almost hopless. Old timber

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Sides zacked it up again. Her. Yes, it's one miserable intrigue after

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another. You know he has absolutely
no interest in improving a lot of the

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natives. Will it ever change?
No, no, no, not in

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my lifetime. I should tackle the
king with a light hand, glowance.

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They'll hate you quite enough under any
circumstances. It's where he worked. I'd

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sooner be with youth, but so
would you. I don't think so.

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Oh really bad week, oh very, but I'm happy to see you truly.

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Well, we're here, and that's
a leassuring as you know that.

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I ay many places knees where it's
not good or kind to let your acquaintances

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drop out of sight, even for
one short week. Yeah, that's really

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why I decided to write in pubble. May be well enough to join us,

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he said. A week to recover
the apothecary probably fixed him up more,

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as he is a conscientious man,
I'd say so. Oh, miss.

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He wanted to certify Jevins's death as
suicide. I wonder what really did

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happen? Well, accidental death is
a more dignified way of going out.

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I'm inclined to believe it's the proof. Jevins wasn't your sital No no,

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and of course there's another old turn. No no, that's imagining and couldn't

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be true. Hello, Juma,
you'll come in cottage? Yes, yes,

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of course, something wrong? Yes, basta, where's your master?

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Tuma? He just send you to
dark places here he was cut, not

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able to escape with sufficient speed.
Dead you'll come, yes, I'll have

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a look at him. He may
be just asleep. Master m de run

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ved. This is dead court chap
alongs past the bodice too warm, she

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as cholera. No, he had
seaver and he was being ridden by a

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nightmare, and it pursued him in
the dark places. What kind of nonsense

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is that he was afraid to fall
asleep? That's about all I can tell

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you, Loves that night I spent
with him, very trying. By the

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way, he told me that a
blind face that cries and cannot wipe its

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eyes, a blind face chased him
down corridors. I suspect that his year's

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out here. The remorseless heat,
the unrewarding work building, the real line,

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poor food, all those began to
affect his mindness, and says,

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as his mind was wondering. But
dark places not a that's superstitious and ignorant.

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Were to us, it's not to
the natives. You hurt tumor.

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He also told me that there were
evil spirits in the cottage. What rubbish.

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Look at Hummel's eyes, good Lord, shut his eyelids. I can

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see helen those eyes. Am I
implore you to yes, doctor, when

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did your master go to bed he
live in or twelve he was will then?

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How you do know? No,
he was not ill. He did

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not sleep for sid nights to say
no, I see him walking much very

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late in the night. What do
you think too he descended into a dark

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placus. He's not able to escape
into sufficient speed. Go out and prepare

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the seals to be set on the
Sahib's property. I tell other servants to

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stay away until you until you recontail
of Sahib's property. They are all thieves

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and they would steal. Or what
did he die? Asked Versa. M

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hm, As far as I can
make out, he that from anything,

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stop each of the heart's action,
heat apperplexy or some other visitation. He

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suddenly was scared today, looked those
eyes us cover up the face? Is

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there any fear on earth that can
turn a man into that lightness? It

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is ghastly, Please besto cover it
up? No fear on pus m hmm.

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Willing to take a half a day, not together any sort of coffin

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and tell the coolies to break ground
next to Jevin's grave. Yeah, says

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I sees would at once have shod
feelings and must have property. Good man

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to mar thank you. Even spirits
ship have been in cottage. They have

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gotten now, from which I infer
that they have made their way into Hummel

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and will be buried with him.
Do you want tea and food? Doctor?

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You have come a long way?
Tea? Yes? Yes, please,

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no food, Dina, I have
no appetite. Tumor what happens to

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you? Maybe sha Hebrew takes master's
place, he will keep me on.

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Otherwise he returned to my sister in
the village. Excuse please? What is

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that? He? Oh? This
a camera? She teach black books.

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Yes, he takes pictures. I
go to a boy water for tea.

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I think you should go veranda.
I serve you there. I really wonder

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could I capture that on film?
First? All right here on the veranda,

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I say, you've got chum start
up and black box of yours?

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What is it? Either the natives
veel aout pictures? Yes, yes,

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of course. The camera's an instrument
of the devil. It imprisons their faces

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on film and captures their souls and
as well by respect there so so do

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I what's this got to do with
a picture I might take of the late

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Hummel. There's something grizzly about it
for one thing, and well tumors afraid

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that the picture would capture the evil
ones. And man, I do not

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like it. It isn't in medical
science. What isn't things in a dead

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man's eyes? You saw from Oh
for goodness, Saft leave that horror alone.

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I see a native die of pure
fright, but a tiger chivied him.

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I ain't know what kill, indeed
will I'm going to try to see

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tana bishkit and some slashed mid sage
roots. Scellent. Thank you Tooba the

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doctor. He'll be her directly.
Yes, with the master. He has

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black box. Good good lord,
that's Humble's voice. Hut spursto, spursto

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s fasto. I've I'm all right. I heard hess you to the picture?

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Who he was impossible? Of course? What will it look like?

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I destroyed the film. There was
nothing to photograph, and you smashed the

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camera. I didn't. We'd better
leave round, go back to work.

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I've written the this certificate. Yes, I have my horse. Yes we

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can pick them up when we come
back for the burial. We leave them

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with the sa more. Did you
take a picture? I told you it

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was impossible. That's a lie.
Just what did happen? I distinctly heard

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Hammel shriek as if he as if
he were being burned in hell. I

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really don't remember any part of it. I don't believe you. My dearth

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has a let's forget it, shall
We were in such a state now that

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we'd believe anything. Was it Jevins? I beg your pardon? Do you

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believe that Jevins died accidentally? Or
was a suicide whom we have humbled report

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about that Jevins fumbled the trigger on
his guns. There there is an alternative,

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isn't there? I never realized that
you have such a vivid imagination,

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though I am just trying to be
rational. Well, without evidence, I

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haven't the vaguest idea what to infer. Let me answer it this way,

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louds and I'm not being facetious.
There may be heaven, thou must be

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held. Meanwhile, there is our
life here. Lowndes had made up his

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mind. The death of the job
contractor Jevans broke Hummel's spirit and mind because

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Hummell murdered him. But did he
death was certified as accidental? Was it?

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No one will ever know? And
Kipling leaves it up to us to

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reach our own conclusion. The one
fact we have is that Hummel's deterioration followed

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soon after Jevans died. That preyed
on Hummel's mind. He couldn't sleep,

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he was pursued by a thing with
a blind face, that it caught up

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with him. I'll be back short. What did doctor Spurstoe experience when he

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took that picture of Hummel's eyes?
Did an ectoplasmic Hummel reach out from the

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image? On the negative? Is
that why there was that thrashing about noise?

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Your guess is as good as mine. Is it all improbable? The

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painter Matisse once showed a picture to
a visitor who said, I've never seen

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a woman like that, to which
he replied, it isn't a woman,

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madam, It's a picture. If
a painter has permitted certain distortions, why

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not the writer of fiction. Ourcast
included John Beale, Court Benson, and

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Earl Hammond. The entire production was
under the direction of i'mon Brown now a

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preview of our next tale. This
must have been made by one of the

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master carvers, and the age of
it nineteenth dynasty. Am I right?

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The original probably was. This five
foot five statue is a copy from the

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Edwards collection. Even copies aren't cheap. I don't know what to tell your

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Ramsey. It's a physical impossibility for
the statue to move. You must have

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imagined it. I didn't. I
tell you it's physic