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_As long as midnight cloaks the earth_ _With shadows grim and stark,_ _God save us from the Judas kiss_ _Of a dead man in the dark._
_Old Adam Farrel lay dead in the house wherein he had lived alone for the last twenty years. A silent, churlish recluse, in his life he had known no friends, and only two men had watched his passing._