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The Upas Tree

CHAPTER XII
9/19

Did he seem to you quite normal ?" Then Helen rose and stood before him with clasped hands.
"He seemed to me quite normal," she said, "because I had no idea of anything else.

But now that I know the truth, of course I realise at once that he was not so.

And, oh, Dr.Dick, I had a terrible scene with Ronnie!" Dick stood up.
"Tell me," he said.
"I told Ronnie that he was utterly, preposterously, and altogether selfish, and that I was ashamed of him." "Whew! You certainly did not mince matters," said Dr.Dick.

"What had poor old Ronnie done ?" "He had talked, from the moment of his return, of very little save the 'cello he has brought home.

He had suggested that it might amuse me to put it into a bassinet.


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