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The Mystery of Cloomber

CHAPTER XV
19/32

He had great fame in the district as a prophet and worker of miracles--hence the hubbub when he was cut down.

They tell me that he was living in this very cave when Tamerlane passed this way in 1399, with a lot more bosh of that sort.
I went into the cave, and how any man could live in it a week is a mystery to me, for it was little more than four feet high, and as damp and dismal a grotto as ever was seen.

A wooden settle and a rough table were the sole furniture, with a lot of parchment scrolls with hieroglyphics.
Well, he has gone where he will learn that the gospel of peace and good will is superior to all his Pagan lore.

Peace go with him.
Elliott and Chamberlain never caught the main body--I knew they wouldn't--so the honours of the day rest with me.

I ought to get a step for it, anyhow, and perhaps, who knows?
some mention in the _Gazette_.
What a lucky chance! I think Zemaun deserves his telescope after all for giving it to me.


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