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"What's this-what's this, my boy? " cried the major hastily adjusting his reading glasses. "A telegram? And from the West, eh?"
"A night letter from Bob Douglas. I got it yesterday morning. I've been all this time getting here, Major. Believe me! the railroads are badly blocked."