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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 15: At Donald's
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But she wouldn't go into the matter.

Curious, isn't it, your meeting at this end of the world; and that, too, at such a moment ?" "It is curious," Reuben said; "what people call a coincidence.

But Mrs.Donald is mistaken in telling you that her people did me an injustice.

Her father was one of the kindest friends I ever had, and although Mrs.Ellison somewhat misjudged me, and her daughter naturally shared her feeling, they were not in anyway to be blamed for that; for they only thought as ninety-nine people out of a hundred did." "Whitney, Whitney," Mr.Donald muttered to himself.

"I seemed to know the name, though I cannot recall where.
"Ah!" he said suddenly, "of course I remember now, for I was in the court when--" and he stopped.
"When I was tried," Reuben put in quietly.


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