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The House by the Church-Yard

CHAPTER LIII
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There's warmth here.

And see, get me a pinch or two of that thistle-down, d'ye see ?' And with the help of this improvised test he proceeded to try whether he was still breathing.

But there was a little air stirring, and they could not manage it.
'Well!' said Toole, standing this time quite erect, 'I--I think there's life there still.

And now, boys, d'ye see?
lift him very carefully, d'ye mind?
Gently, very gently, for I tell you, if this haemorrhage begins again, he'll not last twenty seconds.' So on a cloak they lifted him softly and deftly to the bier, and laid covering over him; and having received Toole's last injunctions, and especially a direction to Mrs.Sturk to place him in a well-warmed bed, and introduce a few spoonfuls of warm port wine negus into his mouth, and if he swallowed, to continue to administer it from time to time, Sergeant Bligh and his men commenced their funereal march toward Sturk's house.
'And now, Mr.Adjutant,' said Lowe, 'had not we best examine the ground, and make a search for anything that may lead to a conviction ?' Well, a ticket was found trod into the bloody mud, scarcely legible, and Sturk's cocked hat, the leaf and crown cut through with a blow of some blunt instrument.

His sword they had found by his side not drawn.
'See! here's a foot-print, too,' said Lowe; 'don't move!' It was remarkable.


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