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"Hold off, or I'll blow your brains out! " exclaimed Denis, suddenly starting up to a sitting position, and looking wildly around him. "Oh, Walter, is it only you? I dreamed that I had half-a-dozen Afghans upon me! -- why, what is that horrible noise?"
"Only the jackals," said Walter drowsily, coiling himself up in his rug.