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The Queen of Hearts

CHAPTER III
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Forget me in this world.

May we meet in another, where the secrets of all hearts are opened, and where the child who is gone before may make peace between us!' He said those words and went out.

Your father never saw him or heard from him again." I knew the reason now why my father had never confided the truth to anyone, his own family included.

My mother had evidently confessed all to her sister under the seal of secrecy, and there the dreadful disclosure had been arrested.
"Your uncle told me," the priest continued, "that before he left England he took leave of you by stealth, in a place you were staying at by the sea-side.

Tie had not the heart to quit his country and his friends forever without kissing you for the last time.


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