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standing over the dead man, and was thinking of 

 how many places they had been in together, and 

 of his own country, and how he wished he was 

 there again. Then the dead man's face moved. 



' Shamus turned and ran for his life, and he 

 was running till he met some officers, and he told 

 them that the Black Officer's body had stirred. 

 They thought he was lying, but they went off to 

 the place, and one of them had the thought to take 

 a flask of brandy in his pocket. When they came 

 to the lifeless body it stirred again, and with one 

 thing and another they brought him round. 



'The Black Officer was not himself again for 

 long, and they took him home to his own country, 

 and he lay in bed in his house. And every day a 

 red deer would come to the house, and go into his 

 room and sit on a chair beside the bed, speaking 

 to him like a man. 



' Well, the Black Officer got better again, and 

 went about among his friends ; and once he was 

 driving home from a dinner-party, and Shamus 

 was with him. It was just the last night of the 

 hundred. And on the road they met a man, and 



