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You have, of course, my dear readers, not forgotten the chapel of which I spoke at the beginning of the story. It was surmounted by a huge iron cross. Angoulaffre went up to it, and without injuring his prisoners, he hung them by their belts, one on each limb of the cross, like a couple of rings on a ringstand.
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“Gallant defenders of the cross,” said the colossus, as he rode back to his place in the lists; “become its guardians also!”