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SHE NEVER TOLD HER LOVE.
When the door had closed behind the constables, Willy Ray sank exhausted into a chair.

The tension of excitement had been too much for his high-strung temperament, and the relapse was swift and painful.
"Pardon and indemnity!" he muttered, "a mockery and a lie--that's what it is, as I told them.

Once in their clutches, and there would be no pardon and no indemnity.

I know enough for that.