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...this night, when he left me for a walk, he seemed stronger and more cheerful. I concluded that his nervous trouble had spent its force, and began to hope that before long he would be his old self again. Therefore I, sitting before the fire, smoking my pipe and reading very leisurely the morrow's lesson in Latin, awaited his coming back with some degree of unconcern. But when it grew to be eleven o'clock, and as yet no signs of him, I could not help being a little anxious. I don't know why - it is not usual...
...old fellow! where are you going at this time of night...
That now I am a tutor in the old shantee...
That now I am a tutor in the old shantee...
...left alone, the prey of conflicting emotions. Being torn in different directions, I could not breathe freely. I rose, and paced quickly up and down the room. Suddenly I espied a scrap of paper in the corner. I went for it at once. It was a mere fragment, old and yellow; but I thought I recognized the handwriting, and in places it was blistered - with tears? It ran as follows...