The Liar

What happened to the colonel's friend in India?

What happened to the colonel's friend in India?

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He hesitated however, in time, to imply a doubt, he was so impressed with the tone in which Colonel Capadose said that it was the turn of a hair that they hadn't buried him alive. That had happened to a friend of his in India, a fellow who was supposed to have died of jungle fever, they clapped him into a coffin. He was going on to recite the
further fate of this unfortunate gentleman when Mr Ashmore made a move and every one got up to adjourn to the drawing−room. Lyon noticed that by this time no one was heeding what his new friend said to him. They came round on either side of the table and met while the gentlemen dawdled before going out.
"And do you mean that your friend was literally buried alive?" asked Lyon, in some suspense.
Colonel Capadose looked at him a moment, as if he had already lost the thread of the conversation. Then his face brightened, and when it brightened it was doubly handsome "Upon my soul he was chucked into the ground!"
"And was he left there?"
"He was left there till I came and hauled him out."

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