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The Carlow folks were deeply ieons, of

whom so

considerable encouragement, most of them decided to temporarily risk the

editor of the "Herald" to such capable hands, and they returned quietly to

their ho to

the first station in the opposite direction before they succeeded in

planting themselves on the proper train

Meanwhile, the object of their solicitude tossed and burned on his bed of

pain He was delirious most of the time, and, in the intervals of half-

consciousness, found that his desire to live, very strong at first, had

disappeared; he did not careexcept rest--he wanted

peace In his wanderings he was al them in an unhappy, distorted fashion He would lie asprawl on

the sith the others, listening to the Seniors singing on the steps,

and, all at once, the old, kindly faces would expand enorly Senior in cap and goould

starind a spiked heel into his hand; then they would toss hih into air that was all fla heat, seeing the cool earth far beneath hiain And then he was drivenwater; and at other tiave off a huge, continuous roar and hu in the exact centre of