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The Gentleman From Indiana

CHAPTER IX
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You were already troubled, and I have added, and you won't forget it, nor shall I--nor shall I! Don't say good-by--I can say it for both of us.

God bless you--and good-by, good-by, good-by!" He crushed his hat down over his eyes and ran toward the orchard gate.
For a moment lightning flashed repeatedly; she saw him go out the gate and disappear into sudden darkness.

He ran through the field and came out on the road.

Heaven and earth were revealed again for a dazzling white second.

From horizon to horizon rolled clouds contorted like an illimitable field of inverted haystacks, and beneath them enormous volumes of pale vapor were tumbling in the west, advancing eastward with sinister swiftness.


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