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now welcomed Frank’s father also as an old and well-known acquaintance. And Frank led him into this ravine every day, here every day he slept most comfortably, and when he awoke he seemed always as though he found a portion of himself which he had lost.
It almost seemed as though Bartos’ device was destined to succeed, at all events, it partially succeeded. But it still failed of its full effect, because Loyka would not hear of returning to his home. But at the same time he would not hear of strolling through the villages any more.
People had already ceased to say in telling his story that he was wandering through the villages. Now they said that he wandered in the woods.
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