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time to see her once again, and to comfort her dying moments with the treasure he had risked so much to procure.

When he was gone, Seppel stretched his limbs once more before the stove, and said half to himself with a meditative air, "After all, I begin to doubt whether we shall succeed so easily in conquering these Russians."