When the alarm bell of the Judge's House began to ring, a crowd soon gathered. People came
running with lanterns and torches, and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house. They
knocked loudly at the door, but there was no reply. Then they broke down the door, and poured into the
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great dining−room. The Doctor was the first to reach Moore. But too late.
There at the end of the bell rope hung the body of the student. The Judge stared out once more
from his picture. But on his face there was a smile of triumph.