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Wogan burst into a laugh of exultation; he saw his le himself and his sword

"Aha, my friend," he cried, "you handle a sword very prettily, but I a the door to be ran down the

passage into the road

He had seen a house that afternoon with a high garden wall about it a

quarter of a an ran towards it The th failing He ounded in the

shoulder, he was stabbed in the back, and fro warm Moreover, he looked backwards once over his shoulder and

saw a lantern dancing in the road He kept doggedly running, though his

pace slackened; he heard a shout and an answering shout behind hiered on, labouring

his breath, dizzy He stuainst the sharp corner of the wall If he could find an entrance into

the garden beyond that wall! He turned off the road to the left and ran

across a field, keeping close along the side of the wall He caht As he turned he heard voices in

the road The pursuers had stopped and were searching with the lantern

for traces of his passage He ran along the back of the wall, feeling