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happened in the swamp was all my fault!"
"The birds, Leslie, tell me of the birds," commanded James Minturn. "You
can't possibly know what occurred that separated Nellie and me."
"No, I don't know your side of it; but I do know hers, and I don't think
you do," persisted Leslie. "Now if you would be big enough to let me tell
you how it was with her that day, and what she said to me, your mind would
be perfectly at rest as to the course you have taken."
"My mind is 'perfectly at rest now as to the course I have taken,'" said
Mr. Minturn. "I realize that a man should meet life as it comes to him. I
endured mine in sweating humiliation for years, and I would have gone on
to the end, if it had been a question of me only, but when the girl was
sacrificed and the boys in a fair way to meet a worse fate than hers, the
question no longer hinged on me. You have seen my sons during their
mother's regime, when they were children of wealth in the care of
servants; look at them now and dare to tell me that they are not greatly
improved.


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