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54-40 or Fight

CHAPTER XXVII
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But I have never given pledge which left me other than free to go as I liked.

I have studied, that is true--but I have _not_ reported." "Have we not been fair with you, Baroness?
Has my chief not proved himself fair with you ?" "Yes," she nodded.

"You have played the game fairly, that is true." "Then you will play it fair with us?
Come, I say you have still that chance to win the gratitude of a people." "I begin to understand you better, you Americans," she said irrelevantly, as was sometimes her fancy.

"See my bed yonder.

It is that couch of husks of which Monsieur told me! Here is the cabin of logs.
There is the fireplace.


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