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A Changed Man and Other Tales

CHAPTER X
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It belonged to my father's father and I value it much.

But something more common becomes me now.' Saying which, he took, as he went downstairs, one of the ash sticks used by Swetman himself for walking with.

The yeoman lighted him out to the garden hatch, where he disappeared through Clammers Gate by the road that crosses King's-Hintock Park to Evershead.
Christopher returned to the upstairs chamber, and sat down on his bed reflecting.

Then he examined the things left behind, and surely enough in one of the pockets the gold snuff-box was revealed, containing the fifty gold pieces as stated by the fugitive.

The yeoman next looked at the sword which its owner had stated to have belonged to his grandfather.
It was two-edged, so that he almost feared to handle it.


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