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"It wasn't exactly a promise Besides, I don't think you have been

really asleep; and if you have it is not for long enough," she said,

s" in truly fe

better--not in so much pain?"

"Oh, yes," he replied "I'm in no pain" He told the falsehood as

adave him away

when he was asleep "I shall be quite well presently I wish to Heaven

they would let me be removed to the hospital!"

"That sounds rather ungrateful," said Nell, with h care of you?"

He sighed

"When I lie here and think of all the trouble I've given, I soht place Though I

suppose they'd have hanged him if it had"

Nell shuddered

"Is that the only reason you regret he did not kill you?" she said

"A else is ever worth speaking," she remarked, in a low voice