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As I stood up to say good-bye, the other pulled 

 himself together. " I'm going down next week," he 

 said laconically. " Going down ; why, you are shaking 

 with fever now." ' That's nothing ; I've been writing, 

 and my hand is a bit shaky, but Mitcham, my chief, has 

 been sent off nearly went out altogether last week 

 and there's no one to go in his place, and that 

 native overseer will be stealing the grain if I don't 

 go and look after things well, it was awfully good 

 of you to come and bring those papers; made me 



think of that day long ago at the Races, those 



pictures in the Sporting and Dramatic! Perhaps we 

 will meet there again, if I am home next year." 



"Yes, if!" 



Natives are not the only ones who die when plague 

 and famine stride through the land. 



