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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER XXIV
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But the next moment he was off into the world of illusions, and sometimes could not see them.

Often he asked for Grace most piteously when she was looking at him through her tears, and trying hard to win him to her with her voice.

On these occasions he always called her Mary.

One unlucky day that Grace and Julia were his only attendants he became very restless and wild, said he had committed a great crime, and the scaffold was being prepared for him.

"Hark!" said he; "don't you hear the workmen?
Curse their hammers; their eternal tip-tapping goes through my brain.


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