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Weapons of Mystery

CHAPTER XIII
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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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