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I say, captain. You speak very excellent Bulgarian. Where did you learn it?

I?—Oh, I lived in Sofia for two years—studied there at the Polytechnicon.

You don't say so! Then you must know Professor Nyachnioff?

I certainly do.

Isn't that odd? You know, I married his daughter—little Lisaveta.

Oh, I remember her. I saw her once when I called on her father. She was a very charming girl.

Yes, isn't she? She is an angel, I tell you. And how she loves me—you've no idea, captain. If she knew that I'm lying here, dying—why, the poor little kiddie—she'd cry her eyes out—I tell you, she'd kill herself.

You think so?

Don't you believe it? I tell you she'll kill herself when she reads my name in the list of those killed in battle. You'll see.