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A GRIM WARNING. 319
thoroughly, for otherwise we never could have got on
that night. As it was, we had to go much more slowly
than we had ever gone before.
I was in a perfect fever. Every second's delay seemed
to me like an hour. I feared—nay more, I had a deep
conviction—that some dreadful thing was happening, and
I had over me a terrible dread that we should arrive too
late.
