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Allan’s Wife

CHAPTER X
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I would have robbed him of his life, which is a little thing compared to that which I have lost at his hands.

I have failed, and I am sorry for it, for had I killed him and left no trace the Star would have forgotten him and shone on me again." "Never," murmured Stella in my ear; but Mr.Carson turned white with wrath.
"My people," he said, "you hear the words of this woman.

You hear how she pays me back, me and my daughter whom she swears she loves.

She says that she would have murdered a man who has done her no evil, the man who is the husband of her mistress.

We saved her from the babyans, we tamed her, we fed her, we taught her, and this is how she pays us back.


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