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The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER XIV
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.'" Bunning's voice quite rang out.

His eyes now desperately sought Olva's face, as though he would find there something that would make the world less black.
"I wasn't frightened---not then---that was the odd thing.

The only thing I thought about was saving you---getting you out of it.

I didn't see! I didn't see!" "And then---what did Craven say ?" Olva asked quietly.
"Craven said scarcely anything.

He asked me whether I realized what I was saying, whether I saw what I was in for?
I said 'Yes'-- -that it had all been too much for my conscience, that I had to tell some one---all the things that you told me.


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