The Devil Defeated
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The Devil DefeatedAt that moment, making them all start in surprise, a huge black bird suddenly appeared, flying wildly around the room.
It was a large, ugly bird, flapping about alarmingly, and Dorina instinctively jumped up from the chair by the Earl’s sickbed and moved to the side of the room.
Then while everyone else was watching the bird, which twisted and turned elusively, Dorina saw Jarvis Yarde pause for a moment.
The Earl, intent on watching the mysterious bird, had put his glass down on the bedside table.
With a movement so swift that she did not think it possible, she saw Jarvis drop something into the Earl’s glass – .
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