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Robbery Under Arms

CHAPTER 17
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He'd noticed everything and forgot nothing.
* In the original text, the horizontal bar is represented by a capital "I" rotated 90 degrees, and a bit lower than centre--but from the description, '-- D' may be better, where the '-- ' represents the upright of the T in TD .-- A.

L., 1997 .-- 'Do you recognise either of the prisoners in the dock ?' he was asked.
'Yes; both of 'em,' says he.

I wish I could have got at him.

'I see the swell chap first--him as made out he was the owner, and gammoned all the Adelaide gentlemen so neat.

There was a half-caste chap with him as followed him about everywhere; then there was another man as didn't talk much, but seemed, by letting down sliprails and what not, to be in it.
I heard this Starlight, as he calls hisself now, say to him, "You have everything ready to break camp by ten o'clock, and I'll be there to-morrow and square up." I thought he meant to pay their wages.


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