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AN IMPROVEMENT ON JACOB'S LADDER.
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"that, as I think, this time next year is like to find you still King of Ruritania!" and he broke out into curses on Michael's cunning.
I lay back on my pillows.
"There seem to me," I observed, "to be two ways by which the king can come out of Zenda alive. One is by treachery in the duke's followers."
"You can leave that out," said Sapt.
"I hope not," I rejoined, "because the other I was about to mention is—by miracle from Heaven!"
