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THE RIDER OF THE BLACK HORSE
moved and cut into threads. Next his coat was taken from him, and with knives cut into strips.
"Here we have it!" said one of the men exultantly, as he took from within the lining the letter which Robert had received from the American commander, and had sewed in his coat for safe-keeping. Tears of anger and mortification were in his eyes as he beheld the man who had discovered the letter hand it to the leader, about whom most of the band quickly gathered.
