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A Dog with a Bad Name

CHAPTER ELEVEN
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Corporal and I will bring him here.

We know where to find him in daylight, and can keep him quiet in the woods till dark." "What then?
Who's to keep him ?" "Wait till you've got him." "Are you sure they'll go a thousand for him ?" "Probably two.

Sheer off now, and don't forget, twelve o'clock." The footsteps move away through the wet heather, and the tramp, waiting motionless till the last sound has faded away, draws a long breath and curls himself back into his roost.
But not to sleep--to meditate a campaign.
"Julius," says he to the dog, who appears to be fully alive to the brewing storm, "you and I will have to stop this business.

There'll be three to two, unless the boy fights too.

We must be here at eleven, and tackle one of them before the other two come.


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