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By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say:
His own consciousness of language was ebbing from his brain and trickling into the very words themselves which set to band and disband themselves in wayward rhythms:
You must leave your father and me alone for two minutes, and as there are Life and Death in the world you must not delay."
He was alone and showed no surprise at my coming, saying he had expected me much earlier, as my tour of duty must have ended some time since.
