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For a second I was so filled with despair at Master Veitch's news that my mind was the veriest blank and I could get no thought save that bitterest of all -- that my lady was gone. But with a great effort I braced myself to action.
"And what of my servant Nicol? " I asked, and waited breathlessly for the answer.