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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER XV
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We have kept him here a prisoner, but he could have gained his freedom on any day by simply promising to hold his peace.

He has declined, and the time has come when we can leave him no more.
To-night, if he is obstinate, we are going to throw him into the sea." "And what about me ?" Kate asked.
"You are going with him," Forrest answered.

"If he is obstinate fool enough to chuck your life away and his, he must do it.

Only he had better remember this," he added, looking across at Engleton, "it will mean two lives now, and not one." Engleton rose to his feet slowly.
"Who is she ?" he asked, pointing to the girl.
"I am Kate Caynsard, one of the village people here," she answered.

"I heard you working to-night from outside.


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