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Mr. Standfast

CHAPTER SEVEN
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When I get a chance I will come here, and you will come also when you are able.

Often there will be nothing, but sometimes there will be much.' My luck was clearly in, and my exultation made me careless.

A stone, on which a foot rested, slipped and though I checked myself at once, the confounded thing rolled down into the hollow, making a great clatter.

I plastered myself in the embrasure of the rock and waited with a beating heart.

The place was pitch dark, but they had an electric torch, and if they once flashed it on me I was gone.


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