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comfort and considerably diminished the 

 expense to each of us. 



From this time I began rapidly to improve 

 in mental as well as bodily health, and I 

 was pleased to see a similar improvement in 

 my new chum, who, however, I think 

 passed me a little in the race for life we 

 were running. I did not, for a long 

 while, get over the dreadful dreams I had 

 frequently at night. I used to dream that 

 the awful fellow who first carried me away 

 after I had been wounded, was shaking 

 me, telling me to get up as my last hour 

 was come ; I used to fancy he was looking 

 straight into my eyes on these occasions, 

 and I saw his firm mouth compressed and 

 his sinister glances, as clearly as I had 

 seen him in reality when we exchanged 

 looks for the first time, as he threw me 

 across his broad shoulders before carry- 



