[Trumps by George William Curtis]@TWC D-Link bookTrumps CHAPTER LXXXVII 9/12
The watchmen saw only the great yellow round tanks of the liquor pure as imported, and pushed in behind the blind.
There was no one there; a bench was overturned, and there were glasses upon the counter.
No one there? One of the watchmen struck something with his foot, and, stooping, touched a human body.
He started up. "There's a man here." He did not say dead, or drunk; but his tone said every thing. One of them ran to the next doctor, and returned with him after a little while.
Meanwhile the others had raised the body.
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