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"I WOULD HAVE GIVEN MY SOUL FOR THIS"

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"He has won higher guerdon than we," he said

gravely; "he has died for you."

For he had no knowledge that this one hour of remorse had been the single narrow thread of gold unravelled from the long, twisted, tangled, poisoned web of a lifetime of wrong.

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