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The Dark Forest

CHAPTER II
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There were tears in them.
"Oh! I do want to be good to him!" she whispered.

Then got up abruptly and joined the others.
Late in the afternoon an automobile arrived and carried off most of our party.

I was compelled to remain for several hours, and intended to drive, looking forward indeed to the long quiet silence of the spring evening.

Moved by some sudden impulse I suggested to Trenchard that he should wait and drive with me: "The car will be very crowded," I said, "and I think too that you'd like to see some of the country properly.

It's a lovely evening--only thirty versts....


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