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The Light That Failed

CHAPTER VI
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Who gets up in the gray dawn to call on another man's wife?
It's a girl.' 'Let it be a girl, then.

She may teach him that there's somebody else in the world besides himself.' 'She'll spoil his hand.

She'll waste his time, and she'll marry him, and ruin his work for ever.

He'll be a respectable married man before we can stop him, and--he'll ever go on the long trail again.' 'All quite possible, but the earth won't spin the other way when that happens....

No! ho! I'd give something to see Dick "go wooing with the boys." Don't worry about it.


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