 Henry eagerly seized this permission to look aside, and the blood curdled to his heart as he observed that they were passing a gallows that unquestionably had been erected for his own execution. He turned his face from the sight in undisguised horror....  The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground - Page 200by James Fenimore Cooper - 1824Full view - About this book
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