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'Fact is, Mike, he said presently, 'there is a ship mate of mine down there at Macdougal's I should very much like to meet again. What do you say? 'I'm on. This shipmate, is she married or single? Mike accented the third person feminine. 'Single. She is teaching Macdougal's youngsters. I had no other friend aboard. Aurora obtruded now, and he looked into his mate's face.
"Run and get in the car," he whispered. "I will be there in a moment." She dropped her veil and hastened across the pavement. The Englishman's face grew sterner as he watched her. "Macdougal's accomplice," he muttered. "We used to trust that girl, too." "She had nothing whatever to do with the actual crime, believe me," Quest assured him.
I was their only child; I found myself alone, beset with anxieties and terrors, utterly desolate. I am going to be Mrs. Macdougal's companion at her husband's sheep-run, deep in the Australian Bush, and to teach their children. Since coming aboard I have been too much alone; I have had too much time to think of my hopelessness, my loneliness.
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