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The Octopus

CHAPTER IV
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You--you, Hilma, do you feel well ?" "Yes--I am well," she faltered.
"No, you're not," he declared.

"I know better.

You are coming back to Quien Sabe with me.

This place don't agree with you.

Hilma, what's all the matter?
Why haven't you let me see you all this time?
Do you know--how things are with me?
Your mother told you, didn't she?
Do you know how sorry I am?
Do you know that I see now that I made the mistake of my life there, that time, under the Long Trestle?
I found it out the night after you went away.


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