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We all had a most terrible shock. Waking up from our afternoon sleep, we found that instead of being four, we were only three. Admiral Togo had gone. Mother had been asleep too, but she missed Togo first, and went routing about among us to make quite sure.
'I can't surely have mislaid him,' we heard her muttering. 'Or is it what I fear?'