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The House of the Whispering Pines

BOOK FOUR
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I do not believe it.

I do not believe that such a monster lives.
"But you say, _some one_ entered that room--_some one_ stilled the fluttering life still remaining in that feeble breast.

Some one may have, but that some one was not my client, and it is his guilt or innocence we are considering now, and it is his life and freedom for which you are responsible.

No brother did that deed; no witness of the scene which hallowed this tragedy ever lifted hand against the fainting Adelaide, or choked back a life which kindly fate had spared.
"Go further for the guilty perpetrator of this most inhuman act; he stands not in the dock.

Guilt shows no such relief as you see in him to-day.


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