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Rh hand at first refuses to sign the deed; but more threats and promises are resorted to and at length the thing is done. Absolution in full is granted; the bugbear of purgatory is withdrawn; the last sacrament is administered to the sufferer;—but ere the consecrated wafer can have had time to melt upon his tongue; he dies!

"Your money, or your life!" was the summons of the English robber; "Your estate or your soul!" is the demand of the Mexican priest.