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The fellow must have been sleeping beside the road, for, as I came abreast of him, he raised upon one elbow and after a single glance at the approaching caravan leaped shrieking to his feet and fled madly down the road, scaling a nearby wall with the agility of a scared cat.
Thinking that I might have dropped it when I stooped over Drebber's body, I drove back, and leaving my cab in a side street, I went boldly up to the house--for I was ready to dare anything rather than lose the ring.
It was to me that the doctors came and said that his life was in danger, and that the only thing to save him was to live in the south.
--Well, sure, you will some day, sir, please God, the girl answered after an instant.
