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A Jolly Fellowship

CHAPTER V
12/23

They walked us into a dark room, on one side of the hall, and Maiden's Heart said to us: "Stay here.

Him mad.

I come back.
Keep still," and then he went out, probably to discuss with the sentinel the nature of our conspiracy.

It was very dark in this room, and, at first, we couldn't see anything at all; but we soon found, from the smell of the bread, that we were in the kitchen or bakery.

We had been here before, and had seen the head-cook, a ferocious Indian squaw, who had been taken in the act of butchering a poor emigrant woman on the plains.


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