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The Harvester

CHAPTER XIX
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I will show you to one.

Please come this way." The Harvester led the guest to the lake room and arranged for the night.
Then he went to the telephone and sent a message to an address he had been furnished, asking for an immediate reply.

It went to Philadelphia and contained a description of the lawyer, and asked if he had been sent by Mr.Herron to escort his grand-daughter to his home.

When the Harvester returned to the living-room the Girl, white and defiant, waited before the fire.

He knelt beside her and put his arms around her, but she repulsed him; so he sat on the rug and looked at her.
"No wonder you felt sure you knew what that was!" she cried bitterly.
"Ruth, if you will allow me to lift the bottom of that old trunk, and if you will read any one of the half dozen letters I read, you will forgive me, and begin making preparations to go." "It's a wonder you don't hold them before me and force me to read them," she said.
"Don't say anything you will be sorry for after you are gone, dear." "I'm not going!" "Oh yes you are!" "Why ?" "Because it is right that you should, and right is inexorable.


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