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The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER II
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Then, for an instant, there is a great silence.

The emotion is now beating in waves against the wall.

The faces are whiter now, hands are clenched, lips bitten.

Suddenly there leaps upon them all that gentle voice, now a trumpet.

"Who is for the Lord?
Who is for the Lord ?" Then gently again,--"Let us pray in silence for a few minutes.".


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