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The Country Beyond

CHAPTER III
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But I don't.

I let you live--and have a fam'ly.

And it's you who have given me the Big Idea, Mrs.Captain Kidd.

You sure have! You've told me I've got a right to have a nest of my own, and I'm going to have it--an' in that nest is going to be the sweetest, prettiest little angel that God Almighty ever forgot to make into a flower! Yessir.

And if the law comes--" And then, suddenly, the vision clouded, and there came into Jolly Roger's face the look of a man who knew--when he stood the truth out naked--that he was facing a world with his back to the wall.
And now, as the sun went down, and his supper waited--that cloud which came to blot out his picture grew deeper and more sinister, and the chill of it entered his heart.


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