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Page 15
Don't let them hang me , Jack Rangsley , " I sobbed . “ You know I'm no spy . Don'
t let ' em hang me , Jack . " He rode his horse up to me , and caught me by the
collar . " Hold your tongue , ” he said roughly . He began to make a set speech ...
Don't let them hang me , Jack Rangsley , " I sobbed . “ You know I'm no spy . Don'
t let ' em hang me , Jack . " He rode his horse up to me , and caught me by the
collar . " Hold your tongue , ” he said roughly . He began to make a set speech ...
Page 16
They would hang any undesirable man , like these runners , whom it would make
too great a stir to murder outright , over the edge of a low bank , and swear to him
that he was clawing the brink of Shakespeare's Cliff or any other hundred - foot ...
They would hang any undesirable man , like these runners , whom it would make
too great a stir to murder outright , over the edge of a low bank , and swear to him
that he was clawing the brink of Shakespeare's Cliff or any other hundred - foot ...
Page 27
... his high soul - I gave him credit for a high soul - could put up with the squalid
ferocity with which I credited Castro . It seemed to hang in the air round the
grotesque raggedness of the saturnine brown man . Carlos had made Spain too
hot to ...
... his high soul - I gave him credit for a high soul - could put up with the squalid
ferocity with which I credited Castro . It seemed to hang in the air round the
grotesque raggedness of the saturnine brown man . Carlos had made Spain too
hot to ...
Page 30
Tomas muttered something that I did not catch , and then : “ If the English
caballero committed indiscretions , or quarreled --and all these people quarrel ,
why , God knows - that Irish devil could hang many persons , even myself , or
take ...
Tomas muttered something that I did not catch , and then : “ If the English
caballero committed indiscretions , or quarreled --and all these people quarrel ,
why , God knows - that Irish devil could hang many persons , even myself , or
take ...
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