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The Light in the Clearing

CHAPTER XII
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Silent as a ghost and as unheeded--one would say--she followed his steps.
I remember when I went on the stand my eyes filled with tears.

Amos gave me an appealing look that went to my heart.

It was hard for me to tell the truth that day--never has it been so hard.

If I had had the riches of Grimshaw himself I would have given them to be relieved.

Was there nothing that I could do for Amos?
I observed that old Kate sat on a front seat with her hand to her ear and Grimshaw beside his lawyer at a big table and that when she looked at him her lips moved in a strange unuttered whisper of her spirit.


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