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Put Yourself in His Place

CHAPTER XVII
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If you'll come with me, sir, I'll show you the door." Coventry accompanied him, and Thomas Knight showed him a strong door with two enormous bolts outside, both shot.
Coventry felt despair, and affected satisfaction.
Then, after a pause, he said, "But is the window equally secure ?" "Two iron bars almost as thick as these bolts: and, if it stood open, what could he do but break his neck, and cheat the gallows?
He is all right, sir; never you fear.

We sarched him from head to foot, and found no eend o' tools in his pockets.

He is a deep 'un.

But we are Yorkshire too, as the saying is.

He goes to Hillsbro' town-hall to-morrow; and glad to be shut on him." Coventry complimented him, and agreed with him that escape was impossible.
He then got a light, and went to his own bedroom, and sat down, cold at heart, before the fire.
He sat in that state, till two o'clock in the morning, distracting his brain with schemes, that were invented only to be dismissed as idle.
At last an idea came to him.


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