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Now or Never

CHAPTER XX
11/15

I was very sorry you had left the institution, and I waited in the vicinity till they said there was no probability that you would be captured.

The most extraordinary efforts were used to find you; but there was not a person to be found who had seen or heard of you.

I was very much alarmed about you, and offered a hundred dollars for any information concerning you." "I am sorry you had so much trouble.

I wish I had known you were there." "How did you get off ?" Bobby briefly related the story of his escape, and Mr.Bayard pronounced his skill worthy of his genius.
"Sam Ray is a good fellow; we will remember him," added the bookseller, when he had finished.
"I shall remember him; and only that I shall be afraid to go into the State of Maine after what has happened, I should pay him a visit one of these days." "There you are wrong.

Those who know your story would sooner think of giving you a public reception, than of saying or doing anything to injure your feelings.


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