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In the Carquinez Woods

CHAPTER III
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I discovered it the first day I saw you, and gave it your name.

But you shall christen it yourself.

It will be all yours, and yours alone, for it is so hidden and secluded that I defy any feet but my own or whoso shall keep step with mine to find it.

Shall that foot be yours, Nellie ?" Her face beamed with a bright assent.

"It may be difficult to track it from here," he said, "but stand where you are a moment, and don't move, rustle, nor agitate the air in any way.


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