The Romance of Elaine - Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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that I did see Kennedy once or twice press the lobe of his ear as
though something had hurt it. We did not know until later that in a pay station down the street our arch enemy, Long Sin, had been calling us up and then, with a wicked smile, refusing to speak to us. . . . . . . . It was about a week later that I came home late one night from the Star, feeling pretty done up. Whatever it was, a violent fever seemed to have come on me suddenly. I thought nothing of it, at first, because I soon grew better. But while it lasted, I had the most intense shivering, excruciating pains in my limbs, and delirious headache. I recall, too, that I felt a peculiar soreness on the ear. It was all like nothing I had ever had before. Indeed the next morning when I woke up, I felt a lassitude that made it quite hard enough even to lounge about in my bath-robe. Finally, feeling no better, I decided to see a doctor. I put on my clothes with a decided effort and went out. The nearest doctor was about half a block away and we scarcely knew him, for neither Kennedy nor I were exactly sickly. "Well," asked the doctor, as he closed the door of his office and turned to me. "What seems to be the matter?" I tried to smile. "I feel as though I had been celebrating not wisely but too well," I replied, trying to cheer up, "but as a |
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