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Denzil Quarrier

CHAPTER XX
15/30

I came here in search of employment--something in a newspaper.
And I happened to see you in the streets.

I asked who you were.

Then, this morning, I watched you and followed you." "What do you want ?" "That's a strange question, I think." "You know there can't be anything between us." "I don't see that." He breathed hard; his eyes never moved from her face.

Lilian, nerved by despair, spoke in almost a steady voice; but the landscape around her was veiled in mist; she saw only the visage which her memory had identified with repugnance and dread.
"If you want my money," she said, "you can have it--you shall have it at once.

I give you it all." "No, I don't ask for your money," Northway answered, with resentment.
"Here's some one coming; let us walk out into the field." Lilian followed the direction of his look, and saw a man whom she did not recognize.


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