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There was a plenty of clean straw, tho', on the floor, had I intended to sleep which I did not. Instead, having blown out my light, I sat on the bed's edge, listening to the big clock over the hall as it chim'd the quarters, and waiting till the fellows below should be at their ease.
"What's that?" "The gug-gug " "Gallows?" She nodded. "You are but a weak girl," said I, meditating. "Aye: but there's a dozen troopers on the landing below." "Then, my dear, you must lock me up," I decided gloomily, and fell to whistling "Vivre en tout cas, C'est le grand soulas " A workman's hammer in the court below chim'd in, beating out the tune, and driving the moral home.
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