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The Amulet

CHAPTER VIII
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You pushed Geronimo into the arm-chair; you buried his body; consequently you will accompany me to the scaffold, unless, in your capacity of servant, they may choose to hang you or break you on the wheel.

O Julio! does not this information awaken you to a sense of our perilous condition ?" "From whom did you learn all that ?" asked the affrighted servant.
"From the bailiff himself." "From his own lips ?" "Yes, my friend, from his own lips.

In spite of your courage and coolness, I think I may say that you have no stronger desire than myself to die by the hand of the executioner." Julio put his hand to his throat and said, dejectedly: "The affair looks serious.

I seem to be strangling; I feel the rope around my neck.

It is all your fault, signor.


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