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Pembroke

CHAPTER I
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Your father's asleep in his chair.

He told your mother not to unbolt this door to-night, and she didn't darse to.

But we went past him real still to the front one, an' you can slip in there and get up to your chamber without his seeing you.

Oh, Charlotte, do come!" Charlotte arose, and she and Sylvia went around to the front door.
Sylvia crept close to the house as before, but Charlotte walked boldly along in the moonlight.

"Charlotte, I'm dreadful afraid he'll see you," Sylvia pleaded, but Charlotte would not change her course.
Just as they reached the front door it was slammed with a quick puff of wind in their faces.


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