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WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON

of a long suspense, and then of the four carrying the débris of their comrade between them, now clear and then presently faint, through a veil of smoke, receding interminably, as it seemed to me, across a vast space of river and meadow. And then, very slowly, I realized that by a miracle I had escaped.