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While the major, hardly able to credit his own eyes, was staring at the dead body of his dear lad, Jaggard, attracted also by the strange cry, came running up.
"What is it, sir? " he asked, saluting Jen even in that moment of anxiety. "I heard an awful cry, sir, and came arter you."