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to the North to hold back the wild raiders- Merlin's voice took on the empty sound that was like the tolling of a great bell. I can't, she said with a slow of regret. Betty lifted a hand to indicate to Josiah that dinner was to beserved. ine, rather than sensibly through the mother; it was silly, for how could any man ever know precisely who had fathered any woman's

Technically. And if anybody asks, she laughed, I'll say they're the children ofmy much older sister. Laura reached to cradle her daughter in herarms while tears spilled over unnoticed. He wasin an amorous mood.