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The Shadow of the Rope

CHAPTER XXII
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"I can well believe it, for I might almost say the same of her myself." The 'bus toiled on beside the park.

The two long lines of lights rose gently ahead until they almost met, and the two men watched them as they spoke.
"Until to-day," continued Severino, "I did not know whether she was dead or alive." "She is both alive and well." "And married again ?" "And married again." There was a long pause.

The park ended first.
"I want you to do me a great favor," said Severino in Knightsbridge.
"She was so good to me! I shall never forget it, and yet I have never been able to thank her.

I nearly died--it was at that time--and when I remembered, she had disappeared.

I beg and beseech you, Mr.Langholm, to tell me her name, and where she is living now!" Langholm looked at his companion in the confluence of lights at the Sloane Street corner.


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