“Oh, Margaret, my dear....” he cried.

He drew a couple of short breaths, and fell back.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.

The Greek on pages 100 and 101, φέγγος ξ, transliterates as phengos x.