[In the Carquinez Woods by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Carquinez Woods CHAPTER IX 16/18
The game's played out. Well!" suddenly turning upon him, "now you know it all.
Your Nellie WAS here with him, and is with him now.
Do you hear? Make the most of it; you've lost them--but here I am." "Yes," he said eagerly--"yes, Teresa." She stopped, stared at him; then taking him by the hand led him like a child back to his couch.
"Well," she said, in half-savage explanation, "I told you the truth when I said the girl wasn't at the cabin last night, and that I didn't know her.
What are you glowerin' at? No! I haven't lied to you, I swear to God, except in one thing.
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