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Felix O’Day

CHAPTER XXIII
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What absorbed her was the new, hard lines in his face, her wonder being that such suffering should have fallen upon the head of a man who so little deserved it.
"And is that what has been breakin' yer heart all these months ye lived with us ?" Felix moved uneasily.

"Yes.

There has been nothing else." "And she's the same one ye've been a-trampin' the streets to find ?" Felix bowed his head in assent.
"And ye kep' all this from me ?" she asked, as a mother might reproach her son.
"You could have done nothing." "I could have comforted ye.

That would have been somethin'.

Did she leave ye ?" Again Felix bowed his head in answer.


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