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"I--living with a woman?"
Her voice had risen out of the whisper for the outbreak. Now it sank
back into it.
"Yes--with me!" "With you? I see. Naturally it must have gone hard
with her--Mary! And she wouldn't see reason even when you explained
that you and I are like brothers?"
He leaned a little toward her and just a shade of emotion came in his
voice.
"When you carefully explained, Jack, with all the eloquence you could
command, that you and I have ridden and fought and camped together
like brothers for six years? And how I gave you your first gun? And
how I've stayed between you and danger a thousand times? And how I've
never treated you otherwise than as a man? And how I've given you the
love of a blood-brother to take the place of the brother who died? And
how I've kept you in a clean and pure respect such as a man can only
give once in his life--and then only to his dearest friend? She
wouldn't listen--even when you talked to her like this?"
"For God's sake--Pierre!"
"Ah, but you talked well enough to pave the way for me.
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