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Won by the Sword

CHAPTER XVII: A ROBBER'S DEN
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They are full of marauders.

A party of troopers arrived here from Eichstadt yesterday evening.

They stopped to get a drink at a cabaret in the forest, and on entering found seven men lying dead, and no one living to say how they got there.

That some, if not all, were robbers was evident from the fact that, on the bodies being searched, articles evidently plundered from travellers were found upon all of them.

An examination was made of the house, and considerable quantities of plunder found hidden.


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