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Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader

CHAPTER X
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Dry up eyes, no cry any more.

Look happy.

God will save you.

Poopy nebber leave you as long as got her body in her soul." Just at this point, Keona rose from his recumbent position, and the girl, who had not suffered her eyes to move from him for a single instant, at once sunk behind the rock and crept so silently away that Alice could scarcely persuade herself she had not been dreaming.
The savage returned, took the child's hand, led her over the brow of the mountain, and began to descend, by a steep, rugged path, to the valleys lying on the other side of the island.

But before going a hundred yards down the dark gorge--which was rendered all the darker by the approach of night--he turned abruptly aside, entered the mouth of a cavern, and disappeared.
Poopy was horrified at this unexpected and sudden change in the state of things.


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