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have clarified Dick's brain entirely, and made him once more a free man.

But Venus had planned other developments, at any rate for the present. The path he pursued passed over a ridge which rose keenly against the western sky, about fifty yards in his van. Here, upon the bright after-glow about the horizon, was now visible an irregular outline, which at first he conceived to be a bush standing a little beyond the line of its neighbours. Then it seemed to move, and as he advanced still farther, there was no doubt that it was a living being of some species or other. The grassy path entirely prevented his footsteps from being heard, and it was not till he was close, that the figure recognised him. Up it sprang, and he was face to face with Fancy.

'Dick, Dick! O, is it you, Dick!'

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