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Nedra

CHAPTER XI
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After that we will be Mr.
and Mrs.Ridgeway, and he could never find the people known as Hugh Ridge and sister." "That would be a shameless way to treat him.

He has been so true, so good, Hugh," she cried reproachfully.

For quite a while their eyes lingered upon the dark water without seeing it, their thoughts centred upon the fast approaching end of their relationship with Henry Veath.
"I wish he could be told," murmured she, her voice far away.
"I couldn't do it to save my soul.

What would he say ?" There was an awed anxiety in his voice.
"I don't care what other people say, but I do care what he says.

He seems so honest, so far above tricks of this kind." "What's one man's opinion, anyhow, especially when he's to be buried in Manila for years ?" "Oh, Hugh! How lonely he will be in that strange place.


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