adimfigurealmostbeforeIcouldgetoutaprotectingword.ThesentinelhailedandIanswered,bothatthesamemoment.
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a dim figure almost before I could get out a protecting word.
The sentinel hailed and I answered, both at the same moment.
I added, 'It's only me--the fortune-teller.' Then I slipped to the poor
devil's side, and without a word I drove my dirk into his heart!
YA WOHL, laughed I, it WAS the tragedy part of his fortune, indeed!
As he fell from his horse, he clutched at me, and my blue goggles
remained in his hand; and away plunged the beast dragging him,
I fled through the woods, and made good my escape, leaving the accusing
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