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Chapter II |
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"It was the night before an engagement," he said. "In the hurry of the encounter, and the retreat next day, I never missed it till the fight was over. I thought of course I had lost it in the heat of the struggle, but it was stolen." "Stolen," she shuddered, and thought of the dead soldier with his face uplifted to the sky in an agony of supplication. Edmond said nothing; but he thought of his messmate; the one who had lain far back in the shadow; the one who had said nothing. |
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