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The Late Mrs. Null

CHAPTER XX
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"I have promised to ask nothing more of that sort.

Let us shake hands on it." He stretched his hand from the window, and Miss Annie withdrew from the folds of her waterproof a very soft and white little hand, and put it into his.

"And now I must be off," she said.

"Are you certain you don't want anything from the store at Howlett's ?" "Surely, you are not going as far as that," he said.
"Not if you don't want anything," she answered.

"Have you tobacco enough to last through your imprisonment?
They keep it." "Now, miss," said Lawrence; "do you want to make me angry by supposing I would smoke any tobacco that they sell in that country store ?" "It ought to be better than any other," said Miss Annie.


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