I stared at him in astonishment, so serious he was.

"It does not even enter your head to regret my return from the dead?"

"Apache!" I exclaimed.

He chuckled to himself.

"I fear," said he, "that you are of too refined a nature for this hard

world. I predict that before you come to the age of thirty you will be

aweary of its cruelty--always understanding when I say world that I mean

the men in the world. I have to thank you for not suggesting that that

was the way in which I used the word. It wearies me to have the obvious

always iterated in my ears. So you feel no hankerings to see me dead?"

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