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Guy Fawkes

CHAPTER XVI
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Follow him thyself if thou hast a mind to try the soundness of thy pate.

I warrant that rock will put it to the proof." "Yet the feat has just been done, and by one burthened with a wounded comrade into the bargain," remarked the first speaker.
"He must be the devil, that's certain," rejoined Haughton; "and Doctor Dee himself is no match for him." "He has the Devil's luck, that's certain," cried a third soldier.

"But, hark! he is swimming across the river.

We may yet catch him on the opposite bank.

Come along, comrades." With this, they rushed out of the churchyard; made the best of their way to the bridge; and crossing it, flew to the bank of the river, where they dispersed in every direction, in search for the fugitive.


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