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Snake and Sword

CHAPTER V
20/22

It is moving--moving--moving out_...." before he became unconscious.
No, Sir.

Absolutely nothing under the young gentleman's foot.
Dr.Jones could shed no light and General Sir Gerald Seymour Stukeley hoped to God that the boy was not going to grow up a wretched epileptic.

Miss Smellie appeared to think the seizure a judgment upon an impudent and deceitful boy who stole into his elders' rooms in their absence and looked at their books.
Lucille was troubled in soul for, to her, Damocles confessed the ghastly, terrible, damning truth that he was a Coward.

He said that he had hidden the fearful fact for all these years within his guilty bosom and that now it had emerged and convicted him.

He lived in subconscious terror of the Snake, and in its presence--nay even in that of its counterfeit presentment--he was a gibbering, lunatic coward.


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