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The Snare

CHAPTER I
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It was now that he looked upon the business he had in hand in the light of a crusade; a sort of religious fanaticism began to actuate him.
The souls of these wretched monks must be saved; the temptation to self-indulgence, which spelt perdition for them, must be removed from their midst.

It was a Christian duty.

He no longer thought of buying the wine and paying for it.

His one aim now was to obtain possession of it not merely a part of it, but all of it--and carry it off, thereby accomplishing two equally praiseworthy ends: to rescue a conventful of monks from damnation, and to regale the much-enduring, half-starved campaigners of the Agueda.
Thus reasoned Mr.Butler with admirable, if drunken, logic.

And reasoning thus he led the way over the bridge, and kept straight on when he had crossed it, much to the dismay of Sergeant Flanagan, who, perceiving the lieutenant's condition, conceived that he was missing his way.


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