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Alice of Old Vincennes

CHAPTER XIII
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I felt that it was best not to tempt ye to give me aid, or to let ye have knowledge of me while I was a spy.

I left two days before ye did, and should have been at Kaskaskia by this time if I hadn't run across Jazon, who detained me.

He wanted to go with me, and I waited for him to repair the stock of his old gun.

He tinkered at it 'tween meals and showers for half a week at the Indian village back yonder before he got it just to suit him.

But I tell ye he's wo'th waiting for any length of time, and I was glad to let him have his way." Kenton, who was still a young man in his early thirties, respected Beverley's reticence on the subject uppermost in his mind.


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