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push him ahile the blood flowed over the floor "But ill both

die if you stay Go-go-go!"

The footsteps had paused st his door The bolts were beginning to be

withdrawn He lifted the la,

and took a pull at it with desperate strength Part of what appeared

to be the solid wall drew out, disclosing an aperture through which he

could just squeeze sideways Quick as thought he was through, forgetting

the lamp in his haste The portion of the wall slid noiselessly back,

just as the prison door was thrown open, and the dwarfs voice was heard,

socially inviting him, like Mrs Bond's ducks, to come and be killed

Some people talk of darkness so palpable that it may be felt, and if

ever any one was qualified to tell from experience what it felt like,

Sir Norman was in that precise condition at that precise period

He groped his way through the blind blackness along what seemed an

interminable distance, and stumbled, at last, over the broken stairs at

the end With soular,

he mounted them, and found himself, as Miranda had stated, in a place

he knew very well Once here he allowed no grass to grow under hiht, he found hiain--in the serene ht and the open

air, fetterless and free