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 he called—and ran
 * The warden from the gate:

"Go, show this gentleman
 * The maid in forty-eight."

By many a cell they past,
 * And stopped at length before

A portal, bolted fast:
 * The man unlocked the door.



He called inside the gate
 * With coarse and brutal shout,

"Come, step it, forty-eight!"
 * And forty-eight stepped out.