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The Palace Beautiful

CHAPTER XXV
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The man bent down over her, and stared hard into her wide open blue eyes.
[Illustration: THE MAN BENT DOWN OVER HER.

Palace B] "I didn't know you was here, missie; it was very cunning of you to feign sleep like that--it was very cunning and over sharp, but it don't come round me.

No, no; you has got to speak up now, and say what you has seen, and what you hasn't seen.

I allow of no nonsense with little girls, and I can always see through them when they mean to tell a lie.

You know where the children who tell lies go to, so you'd better speak up, and the whole truth, missie." Dove spoke in a very rough voice, and poor Daisy felt terribly frightened.
"I didn't see anything," she began, in her innocent way.


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