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One of the Many Disagreeable Ways of Dying in Madrid -- The / Orphan -- El Cojo and His Cave -- Night in the Observatory.
One day Manuel was not a little surprised to learn that his mother had not been able to get up and that she was ill. For some time she had been coughing up blood, but had considered this of no importance.