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Robbery Under Arms

CHAPTER 19
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She looked hard at Starlight, who appeared not to see her.
As she drew back some one staggered against her; an angry scowl passed over her face, so savage and bitter that I felt quite astonished.

I should have been astonished, I mean, if I had not been able, by that very change, to know again the restless eyes and grim set mouth of Warrigal.
It was only a look, and he was gone.

The lock creaked, the great iron door swung back, and we were swallowed up in a tomb--a stone vault where men are none the less buried because they have separate cells.

They do not live, though they appear to be alive; they move, and sometimes speak, and appear to hear words.

Some have to be sent away and buried outside.


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