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Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

CHAPTER X
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As not only the safety of your intercourse, but even of both your lives, depended on being shielded even from suspicion, the utmost wariness and caution was observed in all your proceedings.

Tell me whether you succeeded in your efforts to this end.
I replied, that, at the time, I had no doubt but I had.
And yet, said he, drawing something from his pocket, and putting it into my hand, there is the slip of paper, with the preconcerted emblem inscribed upon it, which the infatuated girl dropped in your sight, one evening, in the left aisle of that church.

That paper you imagined you afterwards burnt in your chamber lamp.

In pursuance of this token, you deferred your intended visit, and next day the lady was accidentally drowned, in passing a river.

Here ended your connexion with her, and with her was buried, as you thought, all memory of this transaction.
I leave you to draw your own inference from this disclosure.


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