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It was worn through much handling and covered with pencilled words. He handed it to Dallas. At first, she could not decipher it. But after studying it carefully and placing together several detached bits she was able to make it out. It was written scrawlingly and in a trembling hand. Once, out of the weakness of the flesh, he wept under the tortures of a sun-dance.
Now and again he would find one of his own "Irving's Latin Prose Composition" texts in the five-cent pile. Opening the book, he usually would discover strange pencilled pictures drawn scrawlingly over many of the pages. His "Latin Composition" wasn't published after 1882, the year the firm failed. It might have been different for him, with a different publisher.
But they were mostly letters from cranks ... or from girls very, very young and sentimental, or on the verge of old-maidhood, who were casting about for some escape from the narrow daily life that environed them.... But one morning a letter came to me so scrawlingly addressed that I marvelled at the ability of the postal authorities in deciphering it.
She did not know this woman's name! And, wonderingly, he read on the white page the words and the name written by Alice herself, scrawlingly but distinctly, the day before in the garden of Notre-Dame. Coquenil was neither surprised nor disappointed at the meager results of Alice's visit to the prison.
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