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v/ith. lice . sj^inpathetic nervous system iraiiiediate ly began to make db feel 
crawly all over, and i arose fraa the ?/ooden bench on the edge of which 
I had been sitting and st.ood in the doorv’/sy until hr. Dias decided \ie 
could leave. 
ihe rain cariB on hard again before we had gone -very 
far. Dr. Dias and the negroes diffl.ppeared completel 3 ^, his cousin 
-n.ry Marques was away ahead of me plunging down the bed of what had 
been a dry raountain stream but which was now ankle-deep with foaming 
water, and it v/as distinctly a case of every man for hiinself, and one 
woman for herself. 1^’' ankles just didn’t dare to turn as i galloped 
wildly down after for if I lost si{^it of him i knew I couldn't 
find niy way to his hou® through the rain. It was v/ild and funny and 
exasperating all at once, but laostly funny, although I was soaked and 
mj/ sneakers squinched ?with water at every jump and i had come down 
too h £ird on a stone and bruised the bottom of foot, so uhat about 
every third jump 1 hit it again. hut at the bottom of the slope nry 
had the grace to ?/ait for roe in an enpty shed, and cifter tnat I tept him 
in sight as v/e ran along the road and finally got into the tovoi. 
