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She must be made to ask you! How? I dont know. No, I guess you dontnor anybody else. Shes too proud and too angry to ask meafter what she said years ago it would mean if she did ask me. But when I think of that child, doomed to lifelong misery, and when I think that maybe in my hands lies a chance of escape, but for that confounded nonsense we call pride and professional etiquette, I He did not finish his sentence, but with his hands thrust deep into his pockets, he turned and began to tramp up and down the room again, angrily. But if she could be made to seeto understand, urged John Pendleton. Yes; and whos going to do it? demanded the doctor, with a savage turn. I dont know, I dont know, groaned the other, miserably. Outside the window Jimmy Bean stirred suddenly. Up to now he had scarcely breathed, so intently had he listened to every word. Well, by Jinks, I know! he whispered, exultingly. Im a-goin ter do it! And forthwith he rose to his feet, crept stealthily around the corner of the house, and ran with all his might down Pendleton Hill. |
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