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A Lost Leader

CHAPTER IV
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I wish I'd never let her the place." "You are a very foolish person," she answered.

"She came here simply because she was weary of cities and wanted to get as far away from them as possible.

Only last night she said that she would be content never to breathe the air of a town again." Lindsay tossed his cigarette away impatiently.
"Oh, I know exactly her way of saying that sort of thing!" he exclaimed.
"A moment later she would be describing very cleverly, and a little regretfully, some wonderful sight or other only to be found in London." "Really," she declared, "I am getting afraid of you.

You are more observant than I thought." "There is one gift, at least," he answered, "which we country folk are supposed to possess.

We know truth when we see it.


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