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The Betrayal

CHAPTER XXIV
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Whatever you touch you corrupt." She shrank away for a moment.

After all, she was a woman, and I hated Ray for his brutality.
"What a butcher you are!" she said, looking at him curiously.

"If ever you should marry--God help the woman." "There are women and women," he answered roughly.

"As for you, you do not count in the sex at all." She turned away from him with a little shudder, and for the first time during the interview she hid her face in her hands.

It was all I could do to avoid speech.
"Come," he said, "do you agree?
Will you leave this place?
I promise you that your schemes here at any rate are at an end." She turned to me.


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