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IT was about three days after our men had struck and left us, that something took place which altered the whole course of our lives in the most singular manner.
It was a dark and very wet night. The King's Road, as I turned out of it into Church Street, at about half past eleven, was very nearly deserted; and Church Street itself was as silent as the grave.