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Captain Eugene Rimarez, having drunk nearly a bottle of excellent claret, and done full justice in other ways to an exceptionally well-spread breakfast table, was beginning to feel himself again. His cheeks were no longer pale, and he could hold his knife and fork with hands that had ceased to tremble. Despite his uniform and commission the man was a coward, and the fact of his narrow escape had completely unnerved him.
He looked up on Dene's entrance, and greeted him with an affectation of carelessness.