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The Mystery of Metropolisville

CHAPTER XIX
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"There are leeches in it--nasty, black worms--and one of them bit my hand once.

And they told me that if a person should be drowned in Diamond Lake the leeches would--oo!--take all their blood, and their faces would be white, and not black like other drowned people's faces.

Oh! I can't bear to think about poor Smith.

If I could only write him a note, and tell him I love him just a little! But I told Albert I wouldn't see him nor write to him.

What shall I do?
He mayn't live till morning.


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