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8 Cards in this Set
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- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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A man wakes up in the iron gibbet he's been left to starve to death in. He knows he was guilty of the crime they put him in there for, but he cannot remember what the crime was. |
A man wakes up in the iron gibbet |
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Across the crossroads from him are two other gibbets; there's a placard outside one that reads 'Rapist', there's a placard outside the second that reads 'Murderer'. There's a dusty skeleton inside the rapist cage; there's a dying old man inside the murderer's cage. |
Across the croasroads from him are two other gibbets |
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Our man can't read the placard outside his own cage, so he asks the old man to read it for him, to find out what he's done. The old man looks at the placard, looks at our man, then spits in his face in disgust. |
Our man can't read the placard outside his own cage |
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Some nuns come along. They say prayers over the dead rapist. Uh-huh. They give food and water to the old murderer. Uh-huh. They read our man's crime. The life drains from them and they walk away in tears. |
Some nuns come along |
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A highwayman comes along, ah-hah. He looks over the rapist without much interest. He sees the old murderer, smashes the lock off his cage, sets him free. |
A highwayman comes along |
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He comes to our man's cage, reads his crime. The Highwayman smiles slightly. Our man smiles back, slightly. |
He comes to our man's cage |
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The Highwayman raises his gun and shoots him through the heart. As our man is dying he screams out, 'Just tell me what I've done?!' The highwayman rides off without telling him what he's done. |
The highwayman raises his gun and shoots him through the heart. |
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The last words that our man ever says are, 'Will I go to Hell?' And the last sound he ever hears is the highwayman quietly laughing. |
The last words |
