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The Tempting of Tavernake

CHAPTER XXIV
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"Really, I think he happened to be there just at the moment I felt like making a clean sweep of everything, of leaving New York and every one and starting life again, and I thought Wenham meant it.

I thought I should be able to keep him from drinking and to help him start a new life altogether over here or on the Continent." "Poor little woman," he said, "you have been disappointed, I am afraid." She sighed.
"I am only human, you know," she went on.

"Every one told me that Wenham was a millionaire, too.

See how much I have benefited by it.

I am almost penniless, I do not know whether he is dead or alive, I do not know what to do to get some money.


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