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I Say No

CHAPTER III
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Weeks passed before I was strong enough to travel--weeks and weeks before I saw his grave! I can only tell you what I know from my aunt.

He died of heart-complaint." Miss Jethro started.
Emily looked at her for the first time, with eyes that betrayed a feeling of distrust.

"What have I said to startle you ?" she asked.
"Nothing! I am nervous in stormy weather--don't notice me." She went on abruptly with her inquiries.

"Will you tell me the date of your father's death ?" "The date was the thirtieth of September, nearly four years since." She waited, after that reply.
Miss Jethro was silent.
"And this," Emily continued, "is the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

You can now judge for yourself.


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