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? ? ? ? "You can do as you please, but you had better ask a reasonable amount if you expect to get it."

? ? ? ? "We don't want advice. We shall manage things in our own way."

? ? ? ? Convinced that further discussion would be unavailing, Rodney relapsed into silence, but now his captors proceeded to unfold their plans.

? ? ? ? One of them procured a bottle of ink, some paper and a pen, and set them on the table.

? ? ? ? "Come up here, boy, and write to Mr. Pettigrew," he said in a tone of authority.

? ? ? ? "What shall I write?"

? ? ? ? "Tell him that you are a prisoner, and that you will not be released unless he pays five thousand dollars."

? ? ? ? "I don't want to write that. It will be the same as asking him to pay it for me."

? ? ? ? "That is what we mean him to understand."

? ? ? ? "I won't write it."

? ? ? ? Rodney knew his danger, but he looked resolutely into the eyes of the men who held his life in their hands.


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