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Literary Lapses
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Stephen Leacock
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Answer.
Of
course
he
was.
Anyone
could
see
that,
but
the
Sheik
never
suspects
it,
and
heals
De
Vaux.
He
heals
him
with
an
herb,
a
thing
called
a
simple,
an
amazingly
simple,
known
only
to
the
Sheik.
Since
using
this
herb,
the
Sheik
has
used
no
other.
Question.
The
Sheik
will
recognize
an
overcoat
that
De
Vaux
is
wearing,
and
complications
will
arise
in
the
matter
of
Hairy
Hank
deceased.
Will
this
result
in
the
death
of
the
boy
lieutenant?
Answer.
No.
By
this
time
De
Vaux
has
realized
that
the
reader
knows
he
won't
die
and
resolves
to
quit
the
desert.
The
thought
of
his
mother
keeps
recurring
to
him,
and
of
his
father,
too,
the
grey,
stooping
old
man--does
he
stoop
still
or
has
he
stopped
stooping?
At
times,
too,
there
comes
the
thought
of
another,
a
fairer
than
his
father;
she
whose--but
enough,
De
Vaux
returns
to
the
old
homestead
in
Piccadilly.
Question.
When
De
Vaux
returns
to
England,
what
will
happen?
Answer.
This
will
happen:
"He
who
left
England
ten
years
before
a
raw
boy,
has
returned
a
sunburnt
soldierly
man.
But
who
is
this
that
advances
smilingly
to
meet
him?
Can
the
mere
girl,
the
bright
child
that
shared
his
hours
of
play,
can
she
have
grown
into
this
peerless,
graceful
girl,
at
whose
feet
half
the
noble
suitors
of
England
are
kneeling?
'Can
this
be
her?'
he
asks
himself
in
amazement."
Question.
Is
it
her?
Answer.
Oh,
it's
her
all
right.
It
is
her,
and
it
is
him,
and
it
is
them.
That
girl
hasn't
waited
fifty
pages
for
nothing.
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