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The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

CHAPTER XXVII
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By -- --, she squeezed every dollar out of him before she let him go, and now she's got him again, has she?
She always was a cool hand.

The old fox," he continued, with contempt and admiration in his voice.

"She's playing a bold game, and the luck is on her side, but she's no more his wife than I am, and she knows that perfectly well." "Do you mean that the divorce was----" "Divorce, bosh!" said Raymond, working himself up into a state of feeble excitement frightful to see.

"I tell you she was never married to him legally.

She called herself a widow when she married Dare, but she had a husband living, Jasper Carroll, serving his time at Baton Rouge Jail, down South, all the time.


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