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sitting-room. The lights were burning. He was fully dressed, and had evidently been up all night.


"I saw him standing in front of me, covering me with a brace of revolvers."

"Even I, who have seen the despair that comes of crime in most of its worst forms, was shocked at the look of him. Still he