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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER L—Lured by his fourpear-old
playmate Jean Lane Frank
Hall aged al ventures on the for-
bidden wall of a dam in a small On-
Arlo town He fails Into the water
and is saved from possible death by
Clinging to Jean's outstretched arms
Next dety he haa a vision of romance
when Jan inform him that because of
their adventure of the day before he is
In duty bound to marry her He agrees
the only proviso being that they are to
wait until they are "grownups"
CHAPTER IL—With Jean's brother
John also aged six Prank begin
school Two years later they are joined
by Jean and Frank's sister Marjorie
A little later Jean confides to Prank
In verse her hope of some day becom-
ing "Mrs Hall" He accepts the "pro-
posal" Prank is fourteen when hie
Mother die He takes a job in the
mill where his father works The boys
Ire eighteen when John's father is
killed in an accident Two years later
Trank'i father and John's mother are
Married Dissatisfied with condition
end ambitious the two boys make
gang to go to Manitoba and "home-
sad" the girls agreeing to go with
elm They set out
ts CHAPTER 111—At Regina they meet
nIsike" wise for a monetary considers
Woes to find them satisfactory
omesteada He does so and the two
friends file claims on Sections ?suttees
lad Twenty-two
orAprma IV—Jake sagely advises
the adventurers in the purchase of sup-
plies and in a wagon drawn by a reit
f oxen sad with a co the four set
ut for their future homes
CHAPTER V — Construction of
°shacks" and the making of a garden
tJ'e their drat occupations There la
I pond of good water on Prank's farm
or oh serves them until they dig a
e A young Englishman of the nasse
Of "spoor is it neighbor of theirs They
II on Spoof typical Englishman of
tazk'soeding and education who is living
In I tent
CHAPTEIR VI—Spoof on his return
visit dimiming himself as a man of
varied social attainments He promises
le0 give the girls lessons on the banjo
Frank has an uneasy feeling that Jean
skits an altogether unnecessary and
Undesirable interest in him His jeal-
im la aroused
5: OF THE
OLD FRONTIER
—
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
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TH4 LIVING GHOST OF HUGH
GLASS
TTUGH GLASS was one of a corn-
pany of free trappera who pushed
Into the Upper Missouri country near-
ly one hundred years ago One day
with a companion known to history
only by the name of Bill Giese came
across a grizzly hear at which both
men fired but failed to Inflict a mortal
wound
The bear charged and the two men
fied Glass had almost reached safe-
ty when he tripped over a stone and
fell As he rose to ble feet the bear
reared up in front of him and wan
and beast went into a clinch Then
followed a terrific combat of knife
against hp and claw which ended
only when the man with his ribs laid
bars and his scalp almost torn off
sank to the ground unconscious
Bill seeing Glass fall kept on run-
ning until he reached the trappers'
camp The captain of the trapper
band sent him back with a companion
to stay with Glass If he were still
alive or to bury him if he were dead
They found the bear dead with 20 gap-
ing knife wounds and lying on to of
Glass who was still breathing faintly
Believing that he could not live more
than a few minutes the two men
stripped him of his hunting shirt and
moccasins and riding back to camp re-
ported that they had buried him
Months later at the trading post
where the trappers had gone with their
beaver packs a man whose face was
so disfigured that there was scarcely
a feature recognizable rode up to Bill
In a hollow voice this strange ap-
parition said to him: "Bill my boy
you thought I was gone under that
time did you? Well hand me over
my horse and gun my lad I ain't
dead yet by a damn sight!"
It was Hugh Glass whom the trap-
pers had believed dead and buried for
months!
The tale which Glass told was one or
suffering and human endurance almost
unparalleled in history Ile did not
know how long he had remained un-
ooneelous For days he lay beside the
carcass of the -bear feeding upon It
until he gained strength Then with-
out a weapon even so much as a knife
he crawled away In spite of the tor-
ture of his unhealed minds ant! a
starvation diet of roots and berries
his iron will drove him on until he
had reached the fort more than eighty
miles away Eventually he recovere4
and now as he said he was "slick as
peeled onion"
Tie bad detwmined to live for the
sole purpose at baying revenge upon
hisjaltbless friend BIB who had so
basely deserted blus
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°Abet!" he exclaimed in return
clasping himself about the middle
"A blow in the fifth rib I A subtle
blow under the lifth rib I
sack was obviously In great spirits
but with a sudden soberness be Sat
down beside me and I felt his band
on my knee "Its not quite the thing
old chap" be said "to cut us dead
just because we're married—that is
some of us"
"I haven't cut you" I retorted
"Give me time"
"I know it's a raw deal for you"
be went on disregarding my Inter-
ruption "and I'd give—I'd give—half
of my happiness if you like if I could
put It right It's a little embarrassing
for us all But don't you think Jean
is worth a fight—a little more fight
than you have made?"
"I understand English" I said "par-
Ocularly Jean's English If she wants
me now she'll have to say so"
"Oh get off your high horse Ete's
a lame nag anyway! Jean thinks she
loves Spoof but she doesn't She's
just Infatuated with him She'll grow
out of that But you might help her
along a little"
"I'm not so sure Spoofs a pretty
decent chap" I said Inwardly giving
myself credit for amazing magnanim-
ity "Of course he is" Jack agreed
somewhat too readily as it seemed to
me "But that has nothing to do with
it Jean isn't putting you and Spoof
under the magnifying glass so to
speak and studying out which Is the
more decent chap It isn't done that
way And to save her life she couldn't
tell you why today she thinks she
loves Spoof and why tomorrow she
will know she loves you Reason
doesn't enter into these things at all"
"That doesn't make It any easier for
me"
"Maybe not" Jack admitted "And
as I have argued that reason doesn't
erter into the consideration I suppose
It Is of no use to reason about it
Then let us get onto ground you can
understand Come on over for 'up-
per" I accepted with more alacrity than
might be expected of a young man
who was resolved that although tied
to the stake he would not thrust his
feet In the ire Marjorie kissed me
when I went in—a kiss for her dear
old bachelor brother she salcb obvious-
ly in fun but I think there was a
pang of deep sisterly sympathy under-
neat!) Jean was calm poised self-
controlled her eyes seemed larger
than usual and the white of them
showed that clear blue tinge that is
found In some kinds of delicate china
Either the lamp light was pecu-
liarly yellow or Jean's complexion was
below the mark She chatted freely
almost too freely and laughed upon
occasion but there was no ring in
her laughter
Altogether It was rather a difficult
evening We played cards after sup-
per and tried as so many others have
done to forget our troubles in the
chance of a lucky hand Even the
cards were against me Jean and I
had always played together but to-
night Jack insisted that it was not
meet that a man should have his wife
for a partner at cards so our combi-
nation was broken I may have had a
subconscious and disturbing feeling
that Jean's hand to my left would
have made better holding than any-
thing I could hope to draw from the
deck At any rate I played abomi-
nably and went home early
And so the days dragged on I kept
a corner of my south window rubbed
clear of frost so that I might main-
tain a lookout for a visit from Spoof
for although be was my rival or be-
cause he was my rival I felt that I
had with Spoof something very much
In common But Spoof seemed sud-
denly tohave discontinued his visits
to Fourteen and Twenty-two and for
the first time in that winter the trail
to his shack was entirely overblown
and Obliterated in a waste of snow
Jack came over every day and Mar-
jorie and Jean came two or three
times a week and gave my shack the
womanly touches of which it was be-
ginning to stand in need but Jean
never came alone I began to under-
stand that the prairies give solitude
without privacy if one seeks privacy
he goes to the city for it
In this sway a couple of weeks had
passed when one evening it occurred
to me that I could kill a dull hour or
two and discharge a somewhat neg-
lected dual duty by writing a letter
to my father Investigation proved
thai had no writing paper so I went
over to Jack's to borrow some They
had none either :)ut Jack produced
an old account book with some blank
sheets in it which we decided would
do quite well In those days we
weren't particular about stationery
Jean was in her room while L was
there and did not come out so in a
few minutes I returned to Fourteen
There I set the lamp on the table and
spread the old account book out be-
fore me It onoe had been owned by
Jack's father the first pages were
tilled with items which apparently had
to do with the purchase of the Lane
farm and with Mr Jane's services in
the woolen mill I glanced over them
with casual intereet and as I did so
a loose slip fell from the pages I
picked it up from the floor and found
a number of lines in Jean's handwrit-
ing: When through the livelong day I Nigh
And ponder en My sad estate
I would my Nemesis defy
And buret the bounding cords of Pate
Now would I tear each bond twirl
Now would I risk your sad reproof
Come let us live and love who mart
Come to me Spoof
"So It bee tome to that' I said to
elf "Love-alek doggerel!'"
ad the sheet of paper In my han
vas even while a hot dud
color ran up toy face at the realtratton
of the fact that I bad read something
never intended for other eyes—for ray
eyes least of all So she could tear
the bonds away: she could risk his
"sad reproof" she could do anything
but find words to fill out the feet of
the last line °Come to me
Spoof I" With a sudden stabbing at
my heart the question interragated me
Could Jean be ingenuous enough to
use those dots after the manner of
our modern writers to imggest some-
thing which she shrank from saying in
plain English?
OOOOO
I resolved toldpave it out with Jean
There was no sense in letting things
go on like this Jean bad happiness
within her grasp for the taking but
she persisted 111 writing moonstruck
"So It Has Come to That" I Said to
Myself "Lave-Wok Doggers II°
doggerel to a man who apparently
cared no more for her than for the
post that marked the corner of his
section Spoofs continued and delib-
erate neglect—I ealled it neglect now—
admitted no other explanation
I spent a wakeful night thinking
about this and toward morning I got
up and retrieved the crumpled bit of
paper which I had thrown into a cor-
TM' of the kitehen 1 sprend it out
and read the linee again A night of
reflection had worn the edge from my
Indignation and I admitted that from
an artistic point of view the verses
were perhaps not so hopeless as I had
thought them Indeed they suggested
a certain germ of poetic ability A
little devil of conscience began an In-
surrection in my sense of fair play
demanding to know if I could write as
well myself But I am no poet I
took a pencil and put down the word
Jean and then set about hunting for
rhymes for it but I could think of
only two—"lean" end "bean" Neither
of these seemed to lend itself to poetic
treatment
Suddenly a wbiff of memory rushing
In from somewhere sent me scuttling
among old school books at the bottom
of my trunk It was a whim of mine
to keep my ord school books if only
that in after years I might read and
appreciate the little gems of literature
which with the assistance of a phleg-
matic teacher I cordially hated when
a child Here it was—an old Ontario
reader with a sensational story about
an Indian woman who killed a bear
with a butcher knife or some such
weapon My sympathy I remember
had always been with the bear doubb
less because of the picture which was
made to represent the Indian woman
I had read this story again and again
when all other passages in the book
had failed to interest me and some
little long-forgotten cell of memory
said I would find a fragment of paper
tucked between these pages Sure
enough there it wasl I drew ft ott
eagerly but tenderly and almost rev-
erently and held it under the lamp
How that strange childish scrawl
seemed to run all over my heart and
pucker it into little gasping pockets!
I could feel a thumping between my
tuna' and the bard beating of my
pulse went throbbing through the pa-
per in my lingers
When I am old
Aid very tall
I hope my name
Will be Mrs Halt
A mist came tip out of the past and
blurred the scralvly letters until they
swam before my eyes and faded out of
sight They had carried ine back to
the dear dead days of childhood—
that Eden of Ute which comes before
the dieillusiolunent which Is the rail
The year' between had gone out with
a gulp that filled My throat and again
we were little children playing to-
gether solemnly mating ourselves for
the future under the witnessing mur-
mur of the great pine That had been
one of the great days in my life and
I had not known it then wonder how
often we know the great day when it
is actually upon us? But In that day
I had drunk in something which had
become part of my system part of my
flesh and bone and brain part of my
hope my aspiration my life And
now would I give it up? Never—
never! I pressed the precious missive
to my lips and suddenly the dam of
my overwrought nerves gave way and
tears rushed 'down upon me With a
man's shame I would have checked
them if I could but the flood would
not be stopped—and there was none
to see- I fell on my bed and let the
storm sweep over me
After"d while came calmness and
with that ettimness the resohttion
which 1 recorded in theOPenillit
Of thli Chapter I would have Opt
with Jean I would put up anottt r
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ficAt for all that made life worth the
lifing I would not accept my fate at
least I would not accept the fate to
which Jean had resigned me She
would see
But this was a battle which could
not be fought in public and I racked
my wits for some way in which I
might lay Blege to Jean—alone - I
hardly could ask lack and Marjorie to
get out of their own house while I
subjected Jean to the main drive which
was to break down her resistance
much less could I invite Jean to Irbur-
teen for the same purpose The
prairies with all their vast spaces re-
fused me just that one little niche of
privacy I needed As I turned the
matter over in my mind a clever plan
unfolded itself before me I mould
make a sled and invite Jean to go
coasting somewhere 'along the banks
of the gully Then we would wander
on and on the farther the better
Fortunately some boards remained
Of the table which had supported the
wedding feast and I went to work
with a will The reaction from in-
activity was in itself a tonic to my
spirits and I found myself whistling
an improvised tune which I Atted to
the words "When I am old and very
tall etc" Elope rebounded as hope
will from its dip into despair and I
began to picture the shack on rOttr-
teen as it would be under the loving
care of "Mrs Hall" end the joy that
we would find in its seclusion The
winter months which bad been drag-
ging so unutterably suddenly threat-
ened to be all too short
I completed my sleigh and presented
myself at the door of Twenty-two
Jack looked upon the vehicle with evi-
dent misgiving I may have built it
rather stoutly but that was no reason
why he should suggest that I hitch an
ex to it
"An oil" I retorted "This is built
for speed I am going to ask Jean to
go coaetine
"Aber said Jack significantly "I
wish you all possible—speed"
Jean shwed no reluctance about go-
lpg She drew on a woolen sweater
and a short cloth winter coat with a
toiler of some fluffy kind of fur which
bad originally grown on a cat She
bad a little far cap of the same ma-
trial which she pulled down snugly
on her bead and we were oft
We Allowed the crest of the PUY
for some distance it the direction of
Aneesit's farm ostensibly in search of
a good coasting spot but actually much
engaged with our thoughte and the reel
purpose of our outing That Jean
understood it perfectly I was con-
vinced and under such circumstances
the fact that she had to readily ac-
cepted my invitation was at least' a
hopeful omen
Walking on the untracked snow in
midwinter is an uncertain business
and the prairie people rarely make use
of snowshoes For the most part
there was frozen crust that bore our
weight but this crust has an unfor-
tunate habit of giving way at onex-
pected momenta particularly when one
has just taken a big stride forward
There Is an effect very much like
coming upon the head of the stairs in
the darkness when you think you are
still safely walking along the halt It
precipitates one forward with great
soddenness but fortunately ltiVg is
a good thing to fall in We scrambled
to our feet lasghing and In high
spirit& It was a wonderful thing to
laugh again sad mean it
At last we found a place where the
snow bad curved in a great whtte
plume over the bank of the gully For
fifty or sixty feet it dropped away in
an absolutely smooth descent then
But the Deecent Was Steeper Than
lithe Thought Her Momentum Over-
halAneso rier and in an instant I
Saw Her Careening Wildly Down
the Slope
cams a sudden pitch so though a great
tattle had scooped out the drift then a
succoesion of little billows whipped
up by the cross currents at the toot of
the bM
"It looks good" said Jeans "Let Me
see if it is firm"
With thatiahe ran out upon the drift
her dainty foot tripping down it like a
bird But the descent was steeper
than she thought her momentum over-
balanced her and in an instant I Bay
her careering wildly down the slope
her arms outstretched her hair dying
loose from under the rim of her cep
Near the foot she disappeared entirely
Perhaps I should have rushed after
her bot I didn't I sat down lelsureir
at the top of tile htH and milted for
her to rearpear Presently a mittentvd
band came up over the at whick
hid her from view then something
something round and fir7 like a
sleeping kitten then a lorobeal two
eyes and a glimpse el cheeks
"Aren't you coping down—to help
me?" she called
' Now I bad meant to stand on my
rights to tell Jean that she bad gone
down the bill on her own accord and
might come back in the same wan
perhalls to poke some quiet mirth at
her efforts to scramble up the eltp-
pery drift When a man contemplates
matrimony he may as well settle at
once who's who ant' why Now wu
my time to be Srm
"No I'm not coming" I said
jean looked at me for a moment in
surprise then uttered not another
word But from her band she drew
her woolen mitten and raised her line
Orm fingers in the air One of those
angers crooked with the knuckle bent
toward me and the Anger pointing to
her face then with a little Deductive
dicker 'he beckoned me to her
It was too much I atirang on my
Med and shot like an arrow to its
target
Isn't it wonderful wonderful t" she
exclaimed "All this white Wildernese
to play In to shout in—Liston? And
she helloed at the top of her 'voice
Only an echo beating back from the
banks of the gully answered See we
are all alone—alone in all the world
Why didn't you bring 19e out here bo:
fore?"
"Are you glad to be alone with me
Jedur I asked drawing her hand Into
mine "Are you gladito be here alone
with mer
"Why yes You are my friend"
"Only yosr friend?"
"Oh see there's a place where per
haps we cam slide right over the pitch!
Let's I"
She Yu on the sled in an luta
and I behind her I kicked it loose
With a gentle crunching Sound the
runners Mtd scraping through the
snow Oat as the speed Increased the
soma Sue to a whine which mintiest
with the rash of air In oar sera and
the spry: of snow in our face& 3040
heels were just above the new
and when as happened race at
twice they dropped too low they
showered us with flying icy eryetsts
Then jut at the dip one heel drove
I much too deep—too deep te be ac-
cidental—the sled trembled turted
sideways and went over
We disentangled ourselves laughing
but we did not immediately reclimb the
hitt I found a sheltered spot in the
pitch where we might alt on the sled
with our backs to the great drift while
our faces caught the slanting warmth
of the sun and our eyes could range
the field of tiny rainbow signals
thrown up from the ripple at our feet
Jean broke up the crusted anew with
the heel of her overshoe then buried
her feet in the powdery mound Pres-
ently a toe came wiggling up through
it
"Jean don't" cried "You take me
back to those old days! We under-
stood everything then then everything
was supposed to be settled"
The toe settled to stillness in its
burrowing Jean's sensitive lips too
settled to a stillness firm and sad
"Tell me Jean" I pressed at length
"Why can't we go back why can't we
start ever again—like that?'
"We have always been good friends"
she murmured
"Good friends—yes Must it stop at
that?"
"And neighbors" she continued
"We have always bt In good neigh-
bors Perhaps that Is the trouble"
"now—the trouble?"
"Weil it's like this" she said and
again the toe began to gyrate in the
snow "We've known each other so
well aid so long there isn't anything
—much—left to know Is there? Could
you stand the boredom of a person
who has no new thoughts no strange
ideas sio whims—nothing that yt
haven't already seen and known a hun-
dred Uwe?"
"There never could be holedom with
you dear Just to have you with me
to feast on you to know you were
mine would be enough for me"
"tor about a week You'd soon tire
of a feast with no flavor to it I
who'd at any rate Oh I see
It working out already I don't want
to goes(p and Jack and Marjorie have
been everything they could to me but
already I can see them settling down
te the routine—the deadly mops
Bad enough anywhere but on these
prattles with their isolation their im-
mensity —s:-reerable I couldn't
stand it"
I studied her for a moment in si-
lence Jean might know all about me
I might have no new thoughts new
ideas new whims but it was quite
plain I didn't know all about her
"Still there are many couple on
these prairies living happily I sup-
pose" I ventured
"You suppose" she repeated "That's
right It just supposition Nobody
knows that is the public doesn't
know But what Is their happiness?
An ox-like acceptance of the routine
Breakfast work dinner work sup-
per work sleep breakfast—the whole
circle over again I couldn't stand it
Prank there's no use pretending I
could 11—I'd run away with some
oner
"Jean I"
"Yes I know what you're thinking
But it would break the routine any-
way it wouldn't be that way I would
lose my soul perhaps that way I
might save it" 1
"You're a strange girl Jean"
"Yes? After all these years? I am
so glad As long 'as I am etrenge you
will be interested In me That's the
trouble With you you're not strange
I know all about you And I wouldn't
be your housekeeper for life for the
CM1
7 for iveL7
Was of being your I r for4 week i'
"Jean I"
"Shocking Isn't It? But true Don't
you know that's whet happens nearly
always? It must happen unless there (4
are new points of interest always aris-
ing I have the misfortune to think
and so I see these things In advance
and try to shield you front theta"
'The misfortune to think?"
Of course Otherwise I could RC
rept the ox routine and grind out my
BOW in the treadmill of three meals a 1
day I suppose that's what people esti
morality—ideal'wite and Mother etc
I'd run away from it all"
I too punched the snow with my
heel "I never heard you talk like
that Jean" I said at length "I didn't
think you thought—along those lines
You wouldn't excuse people who run—
who disregard their marriage 'tower
"The first of which is to love" she'
shot back "When that fails all fail&
Why melte a mockery of It?" e
"But I would love you always—al-
ways You would be to me the only—
the only possible girl in the world l"
Slowly she turned her face toward
me she bad been giving me an op-
portunity for profile study during this
dialogue Her eyes found mine her e
lips—In them again I saw the rose-
leaf beauty of her childhood- When she
spoke her voice was low and tremulotte
and musical
"You dear boy! You think so I '
only wish It were truel"
The last words -came with a catch -
In her breath I thrust forward and
clasped her hands in mine I '
"You mean that? Oh Jean if you
do
"Yes I mean it That Is the great
difficulty It isn't true You wouldn't
love me alwitys I wouldn't ilways be
the only girt"
"Jean you would I swear It!"
"Then I must reverse it I wouldn't
love you always You wouldn't alwaye
be the only Mai in the world
My spirit which had gene poundleg
upwerd fell like a burst balloon
"Whyr I demanded
"Because your vision b too smolt
Because It le bounded by the corner
posts of Fourteen Because I couldn't
live penned up In Min il--11 'enure
"You'd be breaking 'out—toward see-
don Two
"Frank!" It was her turn to ex-
claim "Yes toward section Two You've
done some plain talking lean now
It's my turn It is Spoof that has up-
set your mind—put all these wild no-
tions In your head It is Spoof that
itou are thinking about not me sup- '-
pose you think you could marry him
and not drop into the routine you
would be less an ox as you put It on
Two than on Fourteen Perhaps that
would be best after all Perhaps if
you were fenced in on Two you might
break out toward Fourteen!"
"Frank! Please don't be unkind—
and unfair I am thinking
about Spoof and it is just because be
Is not bounded by section Two You
and Jack and Jake think he's a green-
horn and you play your silly little
tricks on him but his world is the
world and yours is Fourteen and
Jack's is Twenty-two and Jake' S le
—
whatever his section is He's so big
so big!"
"I see Spoof has traveled more
than we have Be has seen more of
the world He has met more people
And so he is big! I bet I grow more
oath to the acre than he does—you
'Mould see his ph-wing looks like—
'be guess and be d—d' ad Jake says"
"Quite an elegant remark suitable
to Jake hardly to be expected from
you And your argument would be Ir
resistible—if I were an ex"
"You're sharp aren't you? Well
something to eat is not to be despised
even by big people like you and Spoof
Even the soul which you are afraid of
losing on Fourteen will pick up and
leave you on Two unless you feed that
body in which it lives That's what
the soul itself thinks about people with
don't hustle for a living it gets up and
leaves them"
"Good for you!" cried Jean "You
are actually thinking I have goaded
you into It NOW—where are we?"
"We're at Spoof You say ieu could
love me for a week and him forever
"I didn't say that"
"You as much as said it Spoof may
have advantages—I admit his travel
and all that—but will those things
keep him big? Won't section Two
bound him in a year or so just as you
say Fourteen bounds me now? In be
different clay less ox more soul?"
"Section Two can never hold Spoof
because be—because he Is big don't
you see? He reads he thinks he
sings he dreams No section can hold
one who does those things
"Does he write poetry?" I Inquired
innocently
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scenting my trap "hut he is very fond'
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Spoof!"
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had withdrawn her bands from mine
and was crinhing little crusts of snow
between her mittens Now she dropped
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powdery residue then !inked them
about her knee For a long moment
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blinking
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that I could have helped speaking
about it I apologize" t
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Jean when I found it I tried to wri
a poem—te you—but I couldn't
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