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Within the Tides

CHAPTER X
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And as if ashamed she made a gesture with her hand, putting away from her that thought.

He spoke, quietly ironic at first.
"Ha! the legendary Renouard of sensitive idiots--the ruthless adventurer--the ogre with a future.

That was a parrot cry, Miss Moorsom.
I don't think that the greatest fool of them all ever dared hint such a stupid thing of me that I killed men for nothing.

No, I had noticed this man in a hotel.

He had come from up country I was told, and was doing nothing.


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