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"No? Well, then, I will give you, to-day, just one chance to

live--one, you dog--one Don'tto get ith the girl, and you shall go out

fro to kill you where

you sit, as I would aYou know me, Slavin--now speak!"

So intensely still was it, Ha

of the watch in his pocket, the hiss of the breath between the giant's

clinched teeth Twice the fellow tried to utter so as with the palsy, his ashen face the picture of terror No

wretch dragged shrieking to the scaffold could have forht, but there was no

hireat hands together convulsively, his throat

swelling beneath its red beard He knew there was no way of escape

"I--I had to do it! My God, Captain, I had to do it!"

"Why?"

"I had to, I tell you Oh, you devil, you fiend! I 'le ure Then

suddenly he rose to his feet in decision "Stand up! Lift your hands