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The Kingdom of the Blind

CHAPTER XXIII
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We will leave it there for the present.

Will you come this way with me, if you please, Captain Granet?
I won't trouble you, Miss Worth, or you, Sir Meyville.

You might not like what we are going to see." Granet rose at once to his feet.
"Of course, I will come wherever you like," he assented.
The two men passed together side by side, in momentous silence, across the stone hall, out of the house, and round the back of the garden to a wooden shed, before which was posted a sentry.

The man stood on one side to let them pass.

On the bare stone floor inside was stretched the dead body of Collins.


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