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Room 13
Room 13 by Edgar Wallace, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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Over the grim stone archway was carved the words:
Parcere Subjectis
In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions Johnny Gray translated this as “Parky Subjects”—it certainly had no significance as “Spare the Vanquished” for he had been neither vanquished nor spared.
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