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Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

CHAPTER XX
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But I have not taken this step to undo it.

I shall give you no clue, no assistance which may lead to crime and to the murder of the innocent.

Release my hand, sir, and suffer me to retire." "You have the means of safety and release in your own hands--a single condition complied with, and, so far as I am concerned, they are yours.
Where is he gone--where secreted! What is the route which you have advised him to take?
Speak, and to the point, Lucy Munro, for I may not longer be trifled with." "He is safe, and by this time, I hope, beyond your reach.

I tell you thus much, because I feel that it can not yield you more satisfaction than it yields to me." "It is in vain, woman, that you would trifle with and delay me; he can not escape me in the end.

All these woods are familiar to me, in night as in day, as the apartment in which we stand; and towards this boy I entertain a feeling which will endue me with an activity and energy as unshrinking in the pursuit as the appetite for revenge is keen which gives them birth and impulse.


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