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The Zeppelin’s Passenger

CHAPTER XXVI
10/13

I don't remember the humours in which I have been when we have conversed.

All that you have said seems to me to be the most arrant nonsense." He swung himself into the saddle and gathered up the reins.
"Thank you," he said bitterly, "I understand.

Only let me tell you this," he went on, his whip poised in his hand.

"You may have powerful friends who saved your--" He hesitated so long that she glanced up at him and read all that he had wished to say in his face.
"My what ?" she asked.
His courage failed him.
"Mr.Lessingham," he proceeded, "from arrest.

But if he shows his face here again in Dreymarsh, I sha'n't stop to arrest him.


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