[Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking]@TWC D-Link bookWeapons of Mystery CHAPTER XIII 17/23
I have nothing that I would keep secret from you, and yet I cannot tell you that which you would know." Did she understand me? Did her quick mind guess my condition? I could not tell, and yet a strange look of intelligence flashed from her eyes. "Mr.Blake," she said, "my soul loathes the thought of marrying that man.
If ever my promise has to be fulfilled, I shall die the very day on which he calls me wife." My heart gave a great throb of joy; her every word gave me hope in spite of myself. "Mr.Blake," she continued, "I never must marry him." "God grant you may not," I said. "I must not," she said, "and you must keep me from danger." "I, Miss Forrest! I would give the world if I could: but how can I? You do not know the terrible slavery that binds me, neither can I tell you." "I shall trust in you to deliver me from this man," she went on without heeding me.
"You must prove yourself to be innocent." "To do that I must bring this man Kaffar.
I know nothing of him.
I could never find him.
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