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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER XLVII
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I recognize now the part of the wood we are in and I can find my way back quite easily.

I'll tell my father that we have made it up.

I wish I had not kept our meetings so private, for it may vex him a little to know I have been seeing you.

He is getting old and irritable, that was why I did not.

Good-by." "But, as I must stay at the Earl of Wessex to-night, for I cannot possibly catch the train, I think it would be safer for you to let me take care of you." "But what will my father think has become of me?
He does not know in the least where I am--he thinks I only went into the garden for a few minutes." "He will surely guess--somebody has seen me for certain.


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