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"What about Valone, like many another, over the side of the path"

"For heaven's sake, tellyou if you wass quiet and let ht Essec

Powell cum home from chapel in a devil of temper, and he call Valmai a

thief to steal his brother's money from him, and worse naht, pwr thing, pwr thing!"

Cardo groaned and clenched his fists

"Well! the ass blowing, and the snoass fallin' shockin', and I

could not let her carry her big bundle of clothes and she in the

condition she wass--"

"Condition?" gasped Cardo, "what do youeyes

"Cardo Wynne," he said, "I wass ussed to think you an honest,

straightforward h you wass a churchman, and are you mean to

tell me now that you donno that Valmai Powell have a small child on the

30th June last year?"

"As God is my witness, Shoni, this is the first breath I have heard of

such a thing; but she was my wife, why then should her uncle have

turned her out?"

"But she nevare tell us that, see you, she nevare speak a word about