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A Study In Scarlet

CHAPTER V
17/26

"Married, you say ?" "Married yesterday--that's what those flags are for on the Endowment House.

There was some words between young Drebber and young Stangerson as to which was to have her.

They'd both been in the party that followed them, and Stangerson had shot her father, which seemed to give him the best claim; but when they argued it out in council, Drebber's party was the stronger, so the Prophet gave her over to him.

No one won't have her very long though, for I saw death in her face yesterday.

She is more like a ghost than a woman.


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