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Although the deadly conflict was raging all about us, I passed it by to regard a still more exciting tragedy. For with a roar like that from a mad bull Mazanovitch dashed aside his captors and sprang to the spot where Valcour lay.
"Oh, my darling, my darling! " he moaned, raising the delicate form that he might pillow the head upon his knee. "How dared they harm you, my precious one! How dared they!"