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The Valley of Fear

CHAPTER 7--The Solution
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We tied all his things into a bundle, and I weighted them with the only weight I could find and put them through the window.

The card he had meant to lay upon my body was lying beside his own.
"My rings were put on his finger; but when it came to the wedding ring," he held out his muscular hand, "you can see for yourselves that I had struck the limit.

I have not moved it since the day I was married, and it would have taken a file to get it off.

I don't know, anyhow, that I should have cared to part with it; but if I had wanted to I couldn't.
So we just had to leave that detail to take care of itself.

On the other hand, I brought a bit of plaster down and put it where I am wearing one myself at this instant.


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