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So they carried him home for the second time -- back to the Land of / Sanity: to the place where the noise of the water sounded ceaselessly / over the rounded stones. And resting one afternoon on a sofa in the / drawing-room Jim dozed.
The door burst open, and Sybil came in. "Boy, do you see, they've given / you a D. S. O. 'For conspicuous gallantry in holding up an almost isolated / position for several hours against vastly superior numbers of the enemy. / He was badly wounded just before relief came."