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home between them. Mrs. Brett was naturally much alarmed, 

 but Frank soothed her fears, and Jimmy was put to bed. 



" Thank you, Frank," he said, ' 1 am awfully much obliged 

 to you." 



"Then prove it by going quietly to sleep if you can. You 

 will be all right in a day or two." 



' How did you know about the olive-oil being a cure, 

 Frank?" 



" I was reading about it not a week ago, and as we were 

 walking along this afternoon I was, strange to say, thinking 



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about it, and imagining that T was bitten and curing myself, 

 like one does make up pictures and rehearse scenes to oneself, 

 when one has nothing better to do. It was a very strange 

 coincidence." x 



Frank went home with Dick, and they took a short cut 

 through the copse. Dick was looking about him very suspiciously, 

 seeing the coils of an adder in every twisted root. Suddenly 

 his- eye caught sight of a snake lying across the path. 



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