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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER XVI
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We shouldn't have a chance.

That is why we were afraid to let you go back.
Forget the last few days and cry quits." "I'll see you d----d first," Engleton answered.
Cecil's face changed a little.
"Well," he said, "I have made you a fair offer.

If you refuse, I shall leave it to my friend Forrest to deal with you.

You may not find him so easy, as I have been." Kate stepped for a moment forward, and laid her hand on Cecil's shoulder.
"Mr.De la Borne," she said, "we don't want to have anything to say to your friend.

We trust him less than you.


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