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In the Reign of Terror

CHAPTER X
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Will you be there and give me a hand to secure the fellow ?" "Certainly I will," Jacques said heartily.

"What do you propose to do with him ?" "I propose to tie his hands and feet and gag him, and then drive to the Rue Bluert, which is close by, and where there are some unfinished houses.

We can toss him in there, and he will be safe till morning.
"It will be the safest plan to run him through at once and have done with him," Jacques said.

"He will be a dangerous enemy if he is left alive; and as he would kill you without mercy if he had a chance, I don't see why you need be overnice with him." "The man is a scoundrel, and one of a band of men whom I regard as murderers," Harry said; "but I could not kill him in cold blood." "You are wrong," Jacques said earnestly, "and you are risking everything by letting him live.

Such a fellow should be killed like a rat when you get him in a trap." "It may be so," Harry agreed; "but I could not bring myself to do it." Jacques was silent, but not convinced.


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