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The Call of the Canyon

CHAPTER VII
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It was a slow stab.

Carley felt the cold blanch of her skin.
"Then--this is it--the something I felt strange between us ?" "Yes, I knew--and you never asked me," he replied.
"That was it?
All the time you knew," she whispered, huskily.

"You knew.
...

I'd never--marry you--never live out here ?" "Yes, Carley, I knew you'd never be woman enough--American enough--to help me reconstruct my broken life out here in the West," he replied, with a sad and bitter smile.
That flayed her.

An insupportable shame and wounded vanity and clamoring love contended for dominance of her emotions.


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