Part 5
She had sent her father a telegram from the East Strand post-office worded
thus:
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All
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is
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well
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with
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and
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quite
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safe
| Veronica |
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me
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and afterward she had dined a la carte upon a cutlet, and had then set herself
to write an answer to Mr. He grabbed her
hair viciously and whispered loudly into her tear-streaked
face. But there
was no sign from her. "What do you want fot that coat, friend?" asked Jack, as he came up. “And where,” he asked, “are my rivals?”
“Deserters,” she answered, laughing. "I've lost my
wager. These
women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter!
Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who
went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders!
She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. She was unusually pale, and her eyes were
brilliant. ‘Hilary, thank God! Have you a pistol about you? Or better yet, your sword. Stanley almost liked Ramage.
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