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She glanced a little vainly at her slim, well-garbed figure. "I'm after the money now and I'll get it! "But tell me about your partner," she continued. "Who is he, anyway?" "I can't tell you." "M'm-m!" She pursed her lips and frowned thoughtfully. "And he just wants you to go out with him, hit or miss?" "That seems to be it, ma'am. And I don't think I'll go now." "Now? What do you mean, now?"
Donatelli hesitated politely, and Constance made room for her with a smile and gesture, which disarmed the Donatelli hostility for all well-garbed and well-poised young women of class other than her own. "And you're going up the country still farther?" asked Donatelli, catching a remark made by one of the men. "I wish I could go as well. You go by buckboard?" Constance nodded.
"Release," repeated the man of the torches. "Blessed release from your torments. Peace out of pain." The voice was of wonderful quality, rich and unctuous, the labials dropping, honeyed, from the lips. It wooed the crowd, lured it, enmeshed it. But the magician had, a little, lost confidence in the power of his spell. His mind dwelt uneasily upon his well-garbed auditor.
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