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WITH a sore heart--so sore that he was careful to give no indication to anyone of its forlorn condition--Red O'Shaughnessy took up his duties in Newcastle under the altered circumstances which emancipation had brought into his life. They were so changed from what they had been before he went away that the young Irishman could scarcely bring himself to believe in their reality.
Hector, the big negro who cooked for the Commandant's private establishment, was frankly pleased with the new fortunes of his master's right-hand man.