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settled to your satisfaction , you will then return home and follow my advice implicitly , as that of your physician ? '' `` Yes ; I promise ; and now let us be off , for we have no time to lose . '' With a heavy heart I accompanied my friend . We started about four o'clock -- Legrand , Jupiter , the dog , and myself . Jupiter had with him the scythe and spades -- the whole of which he insisted upon carrying -- more through fear , it seemed to me , of trusting either of the implements within reach of his master , than from any excess of industry or complaisance . His demeanor was dogged in the extreme , and `` dat deuced bug '' were the sole words which escaped his lips during the journey . For my own part , I had charge of a couple of dark lanterns , while Legrand contented himself with the scarabæus , which he carried attached to the end of a bit of whip-cord ; twirling it to and fro , with the air of a conjuror , as he went .