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They drank their wine and praised their gods of gold and silver, of bronze and iron, of wood and stone.

Suddenly, the fingers of a human hand appeared and began to write on the plaster of the wall of the royal palace next to the lampstand, and the king watched the hand as it wrote. Then the king turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His legs grew limp, and his knees began to knock.

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