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must not talk any more ; as soon as you are fit 

 to be removed you shall come to Radbrook and 

 be nursed. Now not a word,' as he saw 

 Wadding about to say something, ' not a single 

 syllable shall you utter. I will be over again 

 in a day or two to see how you get on — till 

 then, good-bye.' 



As the door closed on him Wadding fairly 

 broke down and cried like a child. ' Well,' 

 said he, as he gradually calmed himself down, 

 ' if that ain't what the sky pilot at home used 

 to call heaping coals of fire on a man's head, 

 I don't know what is.' 



Alfred Acton went up to town by the night 

 train the evening of Independent's second 

 victory, and on arrival at his chambers in the 

 Albany found several letters, amongst them 

 one with the Auburn postmark on it. Letting 

 the others wait, he opened his sister's, for she 

 was his correspondent. We, who are privileged, 

 beg to inform the reader that had she or he 

 been in our position, the said she or he would 

 have quite lost patience ere their curiosity was 



