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the very seconds are precious!" "Will you tell me," he asked resolutely, and looking searchingly into her blue eyes, "whose hand helped to guide M.Chauvelin to the knowledge which you say he possesses ?" "Mine," she said quietly, "I own it--I will not lie to you, for I wish you to trust me absolutely.

But I had no idea--how COULD I have ?--of the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

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