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At a quarter before four on the morning of the Feast of Sidi Oman, / Willard Bent stood waiting at the door of the Mission.
He had taken leave of Mr. Blandhorn the previous night, and stumbled / down the dark stairs on bare feet, his bundle under his arm, just as the / sky began to whiten around the morning star.