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If his anticipations were correct , I should see the one man I had the greatest love for within an hour . Yet , on recollection , I would have had it otherwise . If once I looked on Mary 's face again , I knew that the task would be almost beyond my strength ; and as it happened , it was well I had not this burden to bear in the last hours of the great struggle . For four o'clock struck , and five , and no one came ; and it was half-past six when at last a man unlocked the door of my room and entered . He was one of Black 's negroes . `` Sar will come quick , '' said he , `` and leave his luggage . The master waits . ''