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The Mermaid

CHAPTER XII
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"Day, he was angry; he said it was waste of money; that's why I give it to you." A fierce cunning look flitted again across her face for a moment.

"Don't let him see it," she whispered.

"Day, he is a bad father; he don't care for the children or me.

That's why I've put her in the water." She made this last statement concerning her husband and child with a nonchalant air, like one too much accustomed to the facts to be distressed at them.
For a few minutes it seemed that she relapsed into a state of dulness, neither thought nor feeling stirring within her.

Caius, supposing that she had nothing more to say, still watched her intently, because the evidences of disease were interesting to him.


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