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Affray, I was in my own barrack at the time when it happened. But in the evening a messmate of Prisnr’s told me that he had in a quarrel cut Quartermain’s hand off. Next day I went to see Mr. Winwood, having been at his quarters sevl times before, – Mr. Winwood told me that he had cut the rascal’s hand off and had ruined him, and he wished he had cut his hand off.
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