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LONELY GETS RELIGION
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once more, Lonely's imagination harked back along that channel into which it had been so suddenly and so vividly plunged. He had stolen and robbed and lied. The days of his youth had been days of sin and idleness. The record against him, in the great red-bound ledger, was an overawing one.

BUTCHER BRENNAH DOUSED THE BURNING CAPTIVE