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The People Of The Mist

CHAPTER XIV
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From me you will have justice and no more." For a moment Pereira ceased whining, and a flash of the old ferocity came into his eyes.
"Ah! my friend," he muttered, "if I had but known!" Then turning to Juanna he said: "My dove, have I not treated you kindly?
Will you say no word for me, now that my enemies prevail against me ?" By way of answer Juanna looked first at the human reptile before her, and next at the bosom of her torn dress, now roughly pinned up with the spikes of aloe leaves.

Then she turned and went.
"Baas," said Otter, "may I speak ?" "Speak on," Leonard answered.
"Hearken, Yellow Devil," said the dwarf.

"Ten years ago you took me, and I lay in this camp a slave; yes, in yonder shed.

Here are the marks of the irons--your own seal.

Ah! you have forgotten the black dwarf, or perhaps you never noticed him; but he remembers.


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