E helped and comforted? Long years

He man. "Well, he ain't a great ways from here," said the Colonel.
"Perhaps you might be able to do something for him," he continued
thoughtfully. "I'd hate to see him die. The doctor says he'll pull
through if he can get care and good air and good food." He seized
Stephen's arm in a fierce grip. "You ain't fooling?" he said. "Indeed
I am not," said Stephen. "No," said the Colonel, thoughtfully, as to
himself, "you don't look like the

man to fool." Whereupon he set out with great strides, in marked
contrast to his former languorous gait, and after a while they came
to a sort of gorge, where the street ran between high banks of clay.
There Stephen saw the magaz