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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER XI
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"She's in danger, that's all I call tell you." "Patty, don't be a fool! Out with it! Who is the man?
Is it some one you know ?" "I don't exactly know him I've seen him." "Is he--a sort of gentleman ?" "Oh, yes, he's a gentleman.

And you'd never think to look at him that he could do anything that wasn't right." "Very well.

What reason have you for supposing that he's doing wrong ?" Patty kept silence.

A band of rowdy fellows just then came shouting along the street, and one of them crashed up against the shop door, making Patty jump and scream.

Oaths and foul language followed; and then the uproar passed away.
"Look here," said Hilliard.


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