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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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