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Dead Men’s Money

CHAPTER XVI
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"I've no doubt about that.

And that's a crown piece I gave him myself; I've no doubt about that either!" "Let us see the man," said Mr.Lindsey.
Chisholm led us down a corridor to the cells, and unlocked a door.

He stepped within the cell behind it, motioning us to follow.

And there, on the one stool which the place contained, sat a big, hulking fellow that looked like a navvy, whose rough clothes bore evidence of his having slept out in them, and whose boots were stained with the mud and clay which they would be likely to collect along the riverside.

He was sitting nursing his head in his hands, growling to himself, and he looked up at us as I have seen wild beasts look out through the bars of cages.


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