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Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

CHAPTER XXIII
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I can not altogether forget what she was, nor what I have made her; and just at this time she is in need of my assistance.
Good-night! I shall see Dillon and the rest of them by morning, and prepare for the difficulty.

My disguise shall be complete, and if you are wise you will see to your own.

I would not think of flight, for much may be made out of the country, and I know of none better for our purposes.

Good-night!" Thus saying, the outlaw struck into the forest, and Munro, lingering until he was fairly out of sight, proceeded to rifle the person of Forrester--an act which the disdainful manner and language of his companion had made him hitherto forbear.

The speech of Rivers on this subject had been felt; and, taken in connection with the air of authority which the mental superiority of the latter had necessarily imparted to his address, there was much in it highly offensive to the less adventurous ruffian.


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