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At that I remember that I cried out in overwhelming excitement and amazement; cried out that I knew the man and his story, and the place whence she had been taken; that I had heard the tale from my father years before. "It was Colonel Porter who picked you up -- Colonel Porter, and he saved his life by it! " I cried, quite beside myself at the wonderful discovery I had made. "It was Colonel Porter, in the great riot at Norwich."
"Ah? " she said, slowly; looking away from me, and speaking so coolly and strangely as both to surprise and damp me.