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How long had we fought? five minutes--ten--half-an-hour--an hour?

I could see the sweat gleaaped open, and he drew his breath in great sobbing

pants But, as I looked, his cudgel broke throughback; rasp, and, blinded with blood, I staggered

to and fro, like a drunken rass

And hoeet it was to lie thus, with my cheek upon kind mother

earth, to stretchbody, and with e stood above e-sounding, broken laugh, and whirled

up his cudgel--to beat out my brains--even as the Pedler had

foretold--to- upon e's eyes--I sel "Get up--or, by

God--I'll do--for 'ee!"

Sighing, I rose, and took the cudgel he held out to

the blood from my eyes as I did so

And now, as I faced his vanished from my

ken save the man before me--he filled the universe, and, even as

he leaped upon th; there was a jarring, splintering shock, and Black

George was beaten down upon his knees, but as, dropping , and

staring at the broker cudgel in his hand

"George!" said I