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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER XXIV
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Certainly every word Mr.Bartley _said_ was against it.

He spoke of it with horror.

Yet, somehow or other, that wretched man obtained from him an order to send the man Burnley down the mine, and what will you think when I tell you that he assisted the villain to hinder me from going to the mine ?" Then she told him the whole scene, and how they shut her up in the house, and she had to go down a curtain and burst through a quick-set hedge.

But all the time she was thinking of Walter's bigamy and how she was to reveal it; and she related her exploits in such a cold, languid manner that it was hardly possible to believe them.
Colonel Clifford could not help saying, "My dear, you have had a great shock; and you have dreamt all this.

Certainly you are a fine girl, and broad-shouldered.


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