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Frontier Stories

CHAPTER IX
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The game's played out.
Well!" suddenly turning upon him, "now you know it all.

Your Nellie _was_ here with him, and is with him now.

Do you hear?
Make the most of it; you've lost them--but here I am." "Yes," he said eagerly--"yes, Teresa." She stopped, stared at him; then taking him by the hand led him like a child back to his couch.

"Well," she said, in half-savage explanation, "I told you the truth when I said the girl wasn't at the cabin last night, and that I didn't know her.

What are you glowerin' at?
No! I haven't lied to you, I swear to God, except in one thing.


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