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MISS REGAN WILL MARRY THE SOESOEHOENAN
The confused half consciousness, in which Hereford had been only dimly aware that others were moving about him and that he, himself, was being moved, gave place to a restless sleep. He awoke in Max Schimmel's house—in Max's own bed. Clean clothes of his own, saw, had been brought and laid upon a chair. He tried at first to piece together his recollections, confused by the blows upon his head. Then finally he got up, impeded by the pain of his shoulder and a splitting headache, and drew further back the heavy curtains with which Max,
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