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Come Rack! Come Rope!

CHAPTER III
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But I do not wish to trouble or disobey you openly.

I will go away from home for that time.

Good Mr.Barton will cause no trouble; he wants nothing but peace.
Father, you are not just to me.

You have taught me too much, or you have not given me time enough--" Again he broke off, knowing that he had said what he did not mean, but the old man was on him like a hawk.
"Not time enough, you say?
Well, then--" "No, sir; I did not mean that," wailed Robin suddenly.

"I do not mean that I should change if I had a hundred years; I am sure I shall not.
But--" "You said, 'Not time enough,'" said the other meditatively.


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