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The Thirty-nine Steps

CHAPTER SIX
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I made out by groping that the walls were lined with boxes and barrels and sacks of some heavy stuff.

The whole place smelt of mould and disuse.

My gaolers turned the key in the door, and I could hear them shifting their feet as they stood on guard outside.
I sat down in that chilly darkness in a very miserable frame of mind.
The old boy had gone off in a motor to collect the two ruffians who had interviewed me yesterday.

Now, they had seen me as the roadman, and they would remember me, for I was in the same rig.

What was a roadman doing twenty miles from his beat, pursued by the police?
A question or two would put them on the track.


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