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Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories

CHAPTER I
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You can coppy it out and put it at the head of your bed.

It is this: O Lord make me sorry for having killed Sarah Dows' cousin.

Give me, O Lord, that peace that the world cannot give, and which fadeth not away; for my yoke is heavy, and my burden is harder than I can bear.'" The Colonel's deliberate voice stopped.

There was a silence in the room, and the air seemed stifling.

The click of the billiard balls came distinctly through the partition from the other room.


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