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[Footnote 37: I saw nothing sinister about this arrangement at the time. It seemed incredible to me that I should not return.]
[Footnote 38: Having saved the suit-case, I guarded it as a sacred thing. But Dr. Hanson's best clothes and her surgical instruments were in the tin box after all.]
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