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The White Desert

CHAPTER XV
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Then, when I pointed--she turned her head away." "But Ba'teese, he see her." "She's going back.

What do you suppose it can mean?
Can she be--" "Ba'teese catch the nex' train to Tabernacle so soon as we have finish our business.

Eet is for no good." "I wonder--" it was a hope, but a faint one--"if she could be coming back to make amends, Ba'tiste?
That--that other thing seemed so unlike the person who had been so good to me, so apart from the side of her nature that I knew--" "She have a bad mouth," Ba'tiste repeated grimly.

"She have a bad eye, she have a bad tongue.

A woman with a bad tongue, she is a devil.
You--you no see it, because she come to you with a smile, when every one else, he frown.


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