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The Lane That Had No Turning
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CHAPTER X
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"Give the names of the dead at the same time." So Francois read: "Gustave Narrois, aged seventy-two years-" "Yes, yes," interrupted the Cure, "the unhappy yet happy Gustave, hung by the English, and cut down just in time to save him--an innocent man.
For thirty years my sexton.

God rest his soul! Well now, the epitaph." Francois read it: "Poor as a sparrow was I, Yet I was saved like a king; I heard the death-bells ring, Yet I saw a light in the sky: And now to my Father I wing." The Cure nodded his head.

"Go on; the next," he said.
"Annette John, aged twenty years--" "So.

The daughter of Chief John.

When Queen Anne of England was on the throne she sent Chief John's grandfather a gold cup and a hundred pounds.


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