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He staggered to his feet and looked round hilazed eyes; he was

drunk with his own eht by some

object above her bed

"Hallo," said he, "what's ht it in," said she

"What did you do that for, eh?"

"I don't know I think I thought that some day you'd walk off with it

soain So you

see I liked to knoas hanging safe up there when I was asleep You

don'tabout "rust" and "an outside wall"

"It's all right I've cleaned it myself I used to take it down and look

at it every day"

"When did you do that, Molly?"

"All the time you were away"

"Good God!" He took the sword down fro by a red

cord

"You won't find a speck of dust on it anywhere," said she

He had drawn the sword froe; he drew his finger down the long groove that ran along the