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And so the order had come, and, as Judge Jarriquez had foreseen, it was / an order requiring the immediate execution of the sentence pronounced on / Joam Dacosta. No proof had been produced; justice must take its course.
It was the very day -- the 31st of August, at nine o'clock in the morning / of which the condemned man was to perish on the gallows.