The Prelude to Adventure

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Hugh Walpole

The Prelude to Adventure

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Brushing this for an instant aside, he faced next the question of his arrest. There was no one, save his father, for whom he need think. He would send his father word saying–“I have killed a beast–fairly–in the open”–that would be all.

He would not be hanged–poison should see to that. Dunes had murdered, raped, tortured–never yet had they died on the gallows.

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