I hope Sethos is right, but I have a feeling that Cairo is going to take the explosion at the railroad station more seriously than he anticipates. Also they bear evidence of the renewal of his oldriver habit of sending money home--twenty dollars in each letter, withintervals of a week or so between. ation, I didn't see much else Icould steer for, and I was heading for that white heifer on the bank. But just at this time the Burlingame party descended on him, and almostbefore he knew it he was on the way to the hospital on a cot, escorted bythe heads of the joint legations of China and Japan.
It was gratifying to be so honored; it would bepleasant to write home; but the occasion lacked something Why did you want to see him? I asked. I knew the signs; he was suffering from an attack of detective fever. At other times he found comfort in the society of Theodore Crane.
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