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The Devil’s Own

CHAPTER XXV
10/27

How about your man ?" He crossed over and bent down above the fellow, feeling with his hands in the darkness.
"I reckon he's a goner, Cap," he admitted, as though surprised.

"Gosh, I must'r hit the cuss harder than I thought--fair caved in his hed, the pore devil.

I reckon it's no great loss ter noboddy." "But are you sure he is dead?
That will put a different aspect on all this, Kennedy!" I exclaimed gravely, facing him as he arose to his feet.

"That and the belief I now have that Kirby has already consummated his plan of marriage with Miss Beaucaire." "You mean he has--" "Yes, that he has forced the girl to assent to some form of ceremony, probably legal in this country.

I overheard enough between him and Rale to suspect it, at least, and she is even now under the influence of some drug.


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