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—Well, you see, he didn't. But I dare say if he had got a second chance he would have taken it. He did not get a second chance. He had made his bargain. He had made it by the virtue of the Holy Things, and he had to stand to it. He knew right well that as soon as the last day of the thirteen years should come, the claimant would come, and that there would be no chance of hiding from him.

When he had spent a good while sitting on the Gamblers' Rock, looking about him at the beautiful view, he continued his reflections:—

"How much my case was troubling him! He heard me say that I was 'without food or drink or