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The Star-Chamber, Volume 2

CHAPTER XXXII
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"Let him be taken to the Fleet.

But there were other matters of more importance than the treasures--the deeds and legal instruments.

These, as being useless to the robbers, were probably left untouched." "They were so, your Highness," replied Luke Hatton.
"Would they had burned them!" ejaculated Mompesson.

"Would all had been destroyed!" And he gave utterance to such wild exclamations of rage, accompanied by such frenzied gestures, that the halberdiers seized him, and dragged him out of the room.

The old usurer was removed at the same time.
"And now," said Charles, rising from his chair, "one thing only remains to be done ere I depart, and it will he pleasanter to me than aught that has preceded it.


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