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The Profiteers

CHAPTER XII
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Do you know what I'd do, Mr.Wingate ?" "What would you do ?" he asked.
"I'd take her away! I wouldn't care about anybody else or anything.

If the world didn't approve, I'd make a little world of my own and put her in it.

You're quite strong enough." He looked through the walls of the room, for a minute.
"Yes, I am strong enough," he agreed, "but is she ?" "Why do you doubt her ?" Sarah demanded.

"What has she in her present life to lose, compared with what she gains from you--what she wants more than anything else in the world--love ?" He made no answer.

The girl's words had thrilled him.


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