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HANS OF ICELAND.
And the little man, binding Gill's skull to his belt, and drawing on his gloves, hurried, with the nimbleness of a goat, and by the help of Spiagudry's shoulders, through the opening in the roof, where lie vanished.
A third knock shook the whole Spladgest, and a voice outside commanded him to open in the name of the king and viceroy. Then the keeper, moved alike by two different terrors, — one of which might be called the terror of memory, and the other of hope, — hurried toward the low door, and opened it.
