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Encouraged by seeing a little more of his eyes, she went on "It was in

the course of the siege of Delhi, a shell ca There was one young officer ah to have had a chance of escaping the explosion, but

instead of that he took the shell up, its fuse burning as it was, and

ran with it out of the tent, then hurled it to a distance It exploded,

and of course was his death, but the rest were saved, and I call that a

deed of herois a forlorn

hope"

"Killed, you say?" inquired Mr Keith, still in the saic

the e,"about the for taken by Rachel

for a derisive smile, made her exclaim vehemently, "You do not mean to

undervalue an action like that in conacity

in an advance"

"More than one's duty was your test," he said

"And was not this more than duty? Ah! I see yours is a spirit of

depreciation, and I can only say I pity you"

He took the trouble to lift himent Certainly he orse than the Colonel; but Rachel,