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After that, for days she was a prisoner Her-rooht sleep which were all he required And at night, while he was

at the mill, Rudolph sat and dozed and kept watch beloice a day

soer provisions were left at the top of the stairs and her door

was unlocked She would creep out and get thery, but because she ilance slip but once, and she meant to be ready

She learned to interpret every sound below There were ti food came up the staircase and almost smothered her

And there were times, she fancied, when Her and inflaathered, too,

that Gus's place was under surveillance, and ures caate and

conferred with Rudolph down-stairs Then, one evening, in the dusk

of the May twilight, she saw three of theure, and one of them carried, very carefully, a cheap

suitcase

She kneas in that suitcase