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The next day she learned, from Gallup's boy, that he was better; the New York doctor had helped him a great deal. And the day after that the reports were even more reassuring. Then they were not as good. And on the following Saturday Azure met her mistress at the breakfast table with a face even more solemn than hers had been of late.
-"Wapatomac's been hit again," she announced, with a sigh. "Well, I've been expectin' it, but it's always a shock when it comes. Cap'n Barney Cummings was called about three o'clock this mornin', they say. Went out peaceful as a lamb."