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The Amulet

CHAPTER X
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I will accompany you a part of the way and enjoy with you the evening breeze." The bailiff turned and walked by Turchi's side.
Looking around, to assure himself that they were not overheard, Messire Van Schoonhoven said: "The affair in question would not require so many precautions were I not bailiff and you my friend.

But in consequence of these two reasons, my mission becomes painful, and I must claim in advance your forbearance.

You know that my agents are searching every house, building, and garden in the vicinity of the Hospital Grounds where Geronimo was last seen.

The greatest part of this quarter has been carefully examined without any result." Simon Turchi perfectly understood the bailiff's design, and although his heart beat painfully, he mastered his emotion, and said in an indifferent tone: "And you think, Messire Van Schoonhoven, that my garden should be searched in like manner?
It is very natural.

No one is above the law--the knight and the peasant are there equal." "Believe me, signor, that the thought of so disrespectful a conduct towards an honorable nobleman, and that nobleman my friend for years, would never have occurred to me.


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