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The Shadow of a Crime

CHAPTER VIII
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If you fail in any single particular, all may be lost." "I'll let nothing interfere.

But what of Willy?
What if he object?
"Tell him these are my wishes--he'll yield to that." There was a moment's silence.
"Robbie, that was a noble resolve you told me of; and you can keep it, can you not ?" "I can--God help me." "Keep it the day after to-morrow--you remember our customs, sometimes more honored, you know, in the breach than the observance--you can hold to your resolve that day; you _must_ hold to it, for everything hangs on it.

It is a terrible hazard." Robbie put his hand in Ralph's, and the two stalwart dalesmen looked steadily each into the other's face.

There was a dauntless spirit of resolution in the eyes of the younger man.

His resolve was irrevocable.


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