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 expression on his face, cried out: "If there's a God in heaven, come down quick and wring this captain's neck!"

"What is it?" cried the vicar.

"Read it out!" yelled the squire, flinging the crumpled paper ball upon the table. "If you love me, read it out and tell me what to do."

Doctor Syn recovered the note, which had bounced from the table to the floor, and when he had unravelled it and smoothed it straight and flat, he read: