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Excepting for a vague knowledge that Gillis had had a girl with hiether with the half-formed determination that if worse came to worst

she must never be permitted to fall alive into the hands of the lustful

Sioux, Mr Hampton had scarcely so reatly interested in the sex, and his

inclination, since uniting his shattered fortunes with this little

co into personal contact with this

particular specimen Practically, therefore, he now observed her for

the first tie of his vision

sian to appeal faintly to hih, of course, yet a living hu, whom it had oddly become his manifest duty to succor and

protect The never wholly eradicated instincts of one born and bred a

gentleh heavily overlaid by the habits acquired in ht vividly before him the

requirements of the situation Undoubtedly death was destined to be

the early portion of them all; nevertheless she deserved every

opportunity for life that re of hope--well,