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Greenmantle

CHAPTER EIGHT
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The big tug nosed her way in and lay up alongside the pier, where in that season of flood there was enough depth of water.
She signalled to the barges and they also started to drop anchors, which showed that there must be at least two men aboard each.

Some of them dragged a bit and it was rather a cock-eyed train that lay in mid-stream.

The tug got out a gangway, and from where I lay I saw half a dozen men leave it, carrying something on their shoulders.
It could be only one thing--a dead body.

Someone of the crew must have died, and this halt was to bury him.

I watched the procession move towards the village and I reckoned they would take some time there, though they might have wired ahead for a grave to be dug.


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