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my life, without knowing it. Let no man call me honest again--I will not
have it."
"I--Well, Mary, I feel a good deal as you do: I certainly do. It seems
strange, too, so strange. I never could have believed it--never."
A long silence followed; both were sunk in thought. At last the wife
looked up and said:
"I know what you are thinking, Edward."
Richards had the embarrassed look of a person who is caught.
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I am ashamed to confess it, Mary, but--"
It's no matter, Edward, I was thinking the same question myself."
I hope so. State it."
You were thinking, if a body could only guess out what the remark was
that Goodson made to the stranger."
"It's perfectly true. I feel guilty and ashamed. And you?"
"
I'm past it. Let us make a pallet here; we've got to stand watch till
the bank vault opens in the morning and admits the sack. . . Oh dear, oh
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