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THE GENTLE ROBBER
death, and it must needs be that none in high places know, for he goeth unpunished."
"He shall be found and placed in my lowest dungeon," said the Bishop fiercely. "Now tell me what he hath done."
"On my way hither I lodged with a poor woman who told me that he had slain before her eyes her husband and her sons, and all for a cup of silver coin that stood upon the mantel."
"A mere cup of silver coin!" groaned the Bishop. "He shall hang."
Then he told of the murder of Baron Divonne, and of the Squire's daughter of Yverton, who was starved with her seven children; and he told all the tales that the wandering merchant had brought with his
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