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Chapter 30 Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket
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The sergeant1, who was a great raw-boned west-countryman, pushed the gate open, and we were advancing up the winding2 pathway, when a stream of yellow light flooded out from a suddenly opened door, and we saw a dark squat3 figure dart4 through it into the inside of the house. At the same moment there rose up a babel of sounds, followed by two pistol shots, and a roaring, gasping5 hubbub6, with clash of swords and storm of oaths. At this sudden uproar7 we all three ran at our topmost speed up the pathway and peered in through the open door, where we saw a scene such as I shall never forget while this old memory of mine can conjure8 up any picture of the past.
The room was large and lofty, with long rows of hams and salted meats dangling9 from the smoke-browned rafters, as is usual in Somersetshire farmhouses11. A high black clock ticked in a corner, and a rude table, with plates and dishes laid out as for a meal, stood in the centre. Right in front of the door a great fire of wood faggots was blazing, and before this, to our unutterable horror, there hung a man head downwards12, suspended by a rope which was knotted round his ankles, and which, passing over a hook in a beam, had been made fast to a ring in the floor. The struggles of this unhappy man had caused the rope to whirl round, so that he was spinning in front of the blaze like a joint
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vengeance
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