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countenance

"My God, this room-this beautiful room!" I heard

him cry, as he pushed me before him into the library

"It was Mr Glenar

upon a burly felloho had ca over the long table

we had set up as a barricade

We were noeen two fires The sheriff's party

had fought valiantly to keep us out of the library, and

now that ithin, Stoddard's big shoulders held

the door half-closed against the coth of

the ave us an opportunity to deal singly with the felloere cli in from the terrace Bates had laid

one of them loith a club and Larry disposed of another,

who had made a murderous effort to stick a knife

into hiainst the door, where

the sheriff's o on the jump when I say three," said

Stoddard, and at his e sprang away from the

door and into the room Larry yelled with joy as the

sheriff and his men pitched forward and sprawled upon

the floor, and ere at it again in a hand-to-hand conflict

to clear the room