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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XXIII
19/23

I'm all in--and the doctor says so.

I thought I was running along fine up to a few months ago, but all the time I was ready to bust, and didn't know it.

Now, then, I don't want you to blame Sibyl, and if I were you I wouldn't speak of her as 'that woman,' because she's your daughter-in-law and going to stay that way.

She didn't do anything wicked.

It was a shock to me, and I don't deny it, to find what she had done--encouraging that fellow to hang around her after he began trying to flirt with her, and losing her head over him the way she did.


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