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The House of the Whispering Pines

BOOK FOUR
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We should have drunk, each one of us his glass, and one of us would have fallen.

I did not care which, you or Elwood or myself.

But he is not here, and the cast of the die is between us two, unless you wish a certainty, Carmel,--in which case I will pour out but one glass and drink that myself.' "She was in a fever, now, and desperate.

Death was in the room; I felt it in my lifted hair, and in her strangely drawn face.

If I screamed, who would hear me?
I never thought of the telephone, and I doubt if she would have let me use it then.


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