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The Servant

11 December 2014

3:00 PM

11 December 2014

3:00 PM

You will see, alas, that all of this is true.

One morning, I awoke in a feather bed in a room in a tavern and reached, as I always did, for my purse of gold, but it was not there. I had been travelling on business for many months and weeks with only my faithful coachman Joseph for company.

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