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The Dead Alive

CHAPTER XI
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There was John Jago looking up at me in the moonlight!" "Did he see you ?" "Yes.

He said, 'Come down and speak to me! I have something serious to say to you!'" "Did you answer him ?" "As soon as I could catch my breath, I said, 'Wait a little,' and ran downstairs to you.

What shall I do ?" "Let _me_ see him, and I will tell you." We entered her room.

Keeping cautiously behind the window-curtain, I looked out.
There he was! His beard and mustache were shaved off; his hair was close cut.

But there was no disguising his wild, brown eyes, or the peculiar movement of his spare, wiry figure, as he walked slowly to and fro in the moonlight waiting for Naomi.


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