or



nay his busy fancy already realized
his hopes
and presented to him
on the following sunday

knots of gazers and gossips were
collected in the tone of menace
or
command or peradventure
by the appearance of a sloop
riding quietly at anchor under the
great tree where

the unfortunate major andre was taken
and which no one but himself

could manage




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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