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The Lost Provinces

(1898)
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Excerpt from The Lost Provinces, How Vansittart Came Back to France

Unless you go back again, guv'nor, and take a hand in the game.

The interruption came from Arizona Jim, who was sitting with Vansittart and Evelyn in a canoe lying motionless on a silvery lake in the heart of the Adirondacks.

For a moment no one Spoke. It would seem that this privileged adherent had blurted out the millionaire's secret thought, and the possibility alarmed Evelyn. III sharper tones than was her wont She cried, after a quick glance at her husband Don't say such foolish things, Bates. Your master has given enough to France without adding his life to the debt of gratitude. Twenty years hence you will sug gest that Henry Should follow in the same cause. The sole object of your existence is to seek danger and trouble.

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Genre: Children's Fiction

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