Jack hastily retreated, and
taking the first means of concealment that occurred to him, descended the cellar
steps. “Of course I will,” he answered. The low ceiling made him seem
abnormally tall. In this screen, which masked the entrance of a dark passage
communicating with the Condemned Hold, about five feet from the ground, was
a hatch, protected by long spikes set six inches apart, and each of the thickness
of an elephant's tusk. ”
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THE WINDS OF NOVEMBER
The Thanksgiving season brought a fierce wind that
relentlessly whipped around the brick corners of the
school. "You've won your wager. You're the first widow I ever heard of who could
withstand that lure. She wrote it down. Sheppard, whose maternal fears drew her in
another direction, hurried off to the Mint.
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