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The House of the Whispering Pines

BOOK ONE
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These lines said 'Come!' and she went, for reasons which may be clear to you who were acquainted with her weak as well as strong points.
Went how?
No one knows.

By chance or by intention on her part or yours, every servant was out of the house by nine o'clock, and her brother, too.
Only the sister remained, the sister whom you profess to have urged to leave the town with you that very evening; and she can tell us nothing,--may die without ever being able to do so.

Some shock to her feelings--you may know its character and you may not--drove her from a state of apparent health into the wildest delirium in a few hours.

It was not your letter--if your story is true about that letter--or she would have shown its effect immediately upon receiving it; that is, in the early evening.

And she did not.


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