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Frances Waldeaux

CHAPTER XV
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She had heard it often.
Was there any thing in it?
Could He help her?
Slowly, the nervous twitching of her body quieted, her dulled eyes cleared as if a new power of sight were coming to them.
After a long time she heard steps, and Selo calling.

She rose.
The murder was known.

They were coming to arrest her.
What did it matter?
She had found help.
Selo came up excitedly.
"It is another boat, English folk also, that comes to arrive." She turned and waited.
And then, coming up the hill, she saw George, and with him--Lisa! Lisa, smiling as she talked.
They ran to meet her with cries of amazement.

She staggered back on the rock.
"You are not dead?
Lisa----" "Dead?
Poor lady!" catching her in her arms.

"Some water, George! It is her head.


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