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Running Water

CHAPTER XXI
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But since you were not there, since I was alone, I did it alone.

I thought of you, Hilary, while I was saying what I had to say.

I tried to hear your voice speaking again outside the Chalet de Lognan.

'What you know, that you must do.' I warned my father that if any harm came to Walter Hine from taking the drug again, any harm at all which I traced to my father, I would not keep silent." Chayne leaned back in his seat.
"You said that--to Garratt Skinner, Sylvia!" and the warmth of pride and admiration in his voice brought the color to her cheeks and compensated her for that bad hour.

"You stood up alone and braved him out! My dear, if I had only been there! And you never wrote to me a word of it!" "It would only have troubled you," she answered.


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