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for him. If he did die from the cancer, the end would take the form either of pneumonia or of kidney failure; the doctors, knowing they could do nothing for him, had sent him Saladin asked. Nasreen answered evasively. "He is an intelligent man. He keeps asking, where has all the blood gone? He says, there are only two illnesses in which the blood vanishes like this. One is tuberculosis." But, Saladin wait for it. "Because myeloma is systemic, chemotherapy and radiation treatment are not used," Nasreen explained. "
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never faded.
His stepmother emerged from the dying man's marbled mansion to greet Chamcha without a hint of rancour. "Salahuddin. Good you came. It will lift his spirit, and now it is his spirit that he must fight with, because his body is more or less kaput." She was perhaps six or seven years younger than Saladin's mother would have been, but out of the same birdlike mould. His large, expansive father had been remarkably consistent in these matters at least. "How long does he have?" Saladin asked. Nasreen was as undeceived as her telegram had suggested. "It could be any day." The myeloma was present throughout Changez's "long
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