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The Evil Shepherd

CHAPTER XI
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He used to stay out all night, and he quite gave up going to dances and places where he could take me.

Once or twice he came here in the afternoon, dead beat, without having been to bed at all, and before he could say half-a-dozen words he was asleep in my easy-chair.

He used to mutter such horrible things that I had to wake him up." "Was he ever short of money ?" Francis asked.
She shook her head.
"Not seriously," she answered.

"He was quite well-off, besides what his people allowed him.

I was going to have a wonderful settlement as soon as our engagement was announced.


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