Marley's Ghost Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change for anything he chose to put his hand to…

The three men were set to die. Their faces froze forever in agony, eyes crazed with fear. Each prisoner stood before a cannon, limbs bound behind their backs like Prometheus upon the rock. Three cannons, three men set to die, and the officer, clad in primal red, stood ready to…