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The Firing Line

CHAPTER XIV
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And so you are going to leave me ?" "I am going North.

Yes." "What am I to do ?" "Return to your other self and forget me." "Thank you again....

Do you know, Louis, that you have never once by hint or by look or by silence suggested that it was I who deliberately offered you the first provocation?
That is another flicker of that infernal chivalry of yours." "Does your other self approve ?" he said, laughing.
"My other self is watching us both very closely, Louis.

I--I wish, sometimes, she were dead! Louis! Louis! as I am now, here in your arms, I thought I had descended sufficiently to meet you on your own plane.
But--you seem higher up--at moments....

And now, when you are going, you tell my other self to call in the creature we let loose together, for it will have no longer any counterpart to caress....


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