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Cobwebs and Cables

CHAPTER V
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His own face changed rapidly from astonishment to dismay, and from dismay to a passionate rage.

If Roland Sefton could have seen it he would have made good his escape.

But still Phebe's fingers went on pleading for him; and the smile, which she said her father would never see again--a pale, wan smile--met his eyes as he watched her.
"He has been so good to you and me," she went on, with a sob in her throat; and unconsciously she spoke out the words aloud and slowly as she told them off on her fingers; "he learned to talk with you as I do, and he is the only person almost in the world who can talk to you without your slate and pencil, father.

It was good of him to take that trouble.

And his father was your best friend, wasn't he?
How good Madame used to be when I was a little girl, and you were carving all that woodwork at the old bank, and she let me stay there with you! All our happiest days have come through them.


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