Dead Men Tell No Tales

accompanying me to the gate, a postern in the high garden wall. “Hadn’t you better have a lantern?”

No; it was unnecessary. I could see splendidly, had the bump of locality and as many more lies as would come to my tongue. I was indeed burning to be gone.

A moment later I feared that I had shown this too plainly. For his final handshake was hearty enough to send me away something ashamed of my precipitancy, and with


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accompanying me to the gate, a postern in the high garden wall. “Hadn’t you better have a lantern?”

No; it was unnecessary. I could see splendidly, had the bump of locality and as many more lies as would come to my tongue. I was indeed burning to be gone.

A moment later I feared that I had shown this too plainly. For his final handshake was hearty enough to send me away something ashamed of my precipitancy, and with


296 of 682