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Eunice Smith had all her life been accustomed to luxury and her soft white limbs had known nothing of coarse raiment or hard beds, so it was probably the roughness of her night attire or the board-like nature of her mattress that first roused in her feelings that something out of the ordinary had happened.
But her return to consciousness had been very gradual, and even twelve hours after her abduction she was not fully in possession of her senses.