Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 307
VER THE SAFE. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) and, putting on her warm sack, stole softlydown-stairs and out of the door. She shivered slightly as she heard the lockclick from the inside, but she had rememberedto put the key in her pocket, and also the keyto the inside door of the mill, which alwayshung in her… … She thought he was dead, and recoiled in-stinctively, but rallying her courage approached,and, bending over him, saw that he breathed.He was unconscious, and was bleeding from awound in the head. The girl stood for a mo-ment paralyzed by fear, then a bright gleamshone full in her face, and she…
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