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"Twenty pounds!" exclaie rapture in his

voice

"Let ly

Joan saw and heard so h a kind of dimness, that she

could not wipe away, her eyes beheld Ji

that she interpreted fro to deceive Kells? The slow-gathering old-belt Jiold-belt of the miner Creede He had, in his passion to remain near

her, to save her in the end, kept his word to Kells and done the

ghastly deed

Joan reeled and sank back upon the bed, blindly, with darkening

sight and mind