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As usual that day at four o'clock Alexander brought the three-wheeled invalid carriage in which by the doctor's orders he took his old, helpless mistress out until six o'clock every day, round to the front of Maramballe's little house.
When he had propped the light carriage against the step at the exact spot from which he could easily help the stout old lady he returned to the house and an angry voice was heard -- the hoarse voice of a former soldier -- using bad language: it was the voice of the master of the house, a retired infantry captain, Joseph Maramballe.