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The Lane That Had No Turning
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CHAPTER X
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This letter was signed George Fournel.

Fournel had a right to ask a favour of her; and one that was to do her honour seemed the least that she might grant.

He had suffered much at Louis' hands; he had forborne much; and by an act of noble forgiveness and generosity, had left Louis undisturbed in an honour which was not his, and the enjoyment of an estate to which he had no claim.

He had given much, suffered much, and had had nothing in return save her measureless and voiceless gratitude.
Friendship she could give him; but it was a silent friendship, an incompanionable friendship, founded upon a secret and chivalrous act.

He was in Quebec and she in Pontiac; and since that day when he had burned the will before her eyes she had not seen him.


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