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In the Carquinez Woods

CHAPTER III
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It is enough." He would have caught her in his arms again, but she drew back.

"We are near the road," she said quietly.

"Come! You promised to show me where you camped.

Let US make the most of our holiday.

In an hour I must leave the woods." "But I shall accompany you, dearest." "No, I must go as I came--alone." "But Nellie--" "I tell you no," she said, with an almost harsh practical decision, incompatible with her previous abandonment.


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