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The Golden Scarecrow

CHAPTER I
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She took him in her arms for a moment, turned his pillows, then layed him down again.

As he settled down into comfort he saw his Friend, huge, a great shadow, mingling with the coloured lights of the flaming sky.

All the world was lit, the white room glowed.

A pleasant smell was in his nostrils.
"Where are all the others?
They would like to share this pleasant moment, and I would warn them about the unpleasant ones." "They are coming, some of them.

I am with them as I am with you." Swinging across the Square were the evening bells of St.Matthew's.
Henry Fitzgeorge smiled, then chuckled, then dozed into a pleasant sleep.
IV Asleep, awake, it had been for the most part the same to him.


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