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As you drop your belt pouch into the palm of the robber, you feel an agonizing pain tear through your side.

'Did you think we would let you live to identify us?' sneers the robber, but his voice fades as you collapse to the floor. The robbers melt away into the crowd, and by the time your murder has been discovered, they are safely hiding in another part of the vast city.

Your life and your quest end here.

Text copyright © 1985 Joe Dever.
Illustrations copyright © 1985 Gary Chalk.