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A Touch of the Sun


Deane sat up and laid a hand on Holloway's arm and shook him gently.

"Have you been doing that, too?" he demanded. "See here, Bob, have you been doing that, too?"

"Yes, I have, in a sort of a way," Holloway admitted. "I didn't know there was anything to jar you in that. It's part of the regular programme, isn't it?—headache, pain in the back of the neck, red-hot iron band across the eyes, smelling things and seeing things of various sorts. Is it a—a symptom? It must be—what else in thunder could it be? I don't know that I mind it so much; it isn't unpleasant, in a way, but—oh, I don't know! It made me so damnably homesick——"

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