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DARK HESTER

hear. I only knew that it was in France, long ago, and that he was much older than she was and that he’d broken her heart; I thought he was a Frenchman. We never spoke of it again; not once.—And he has followed her here. He has dared to come to her and torment her while I'm away.—And you have played detective and thought you would rid yourself of her like that.—Good-bye, Mother.’

He did not look at her. He brushed past her to the door and left her standing there with her head thrown back, her eyes dilated. Miriam found her lying on the floor when she brought in the lamp and she and Cook carried her up to her room and laid her on her bed.

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