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     The Story of Kilmeny 
     
    
   
   
    
     They hadn’t been very happy together, it 
     
     seems. Her mother made trouble be- 
     
     tween them. Then she went to visit her 
     
     mother in Montreal, and died in the hos— 
     
     pital there, so the word came to Ronald. 
     
     Perhaps he believed it a little too readily, 
     
     but that he did believe it I never had a 
     
     doubt. Her story was that it was another 
     
     woman of the same name. When she 
     
     found out Ronald thought her dead she 
     
     and her mother agreed to let him think 
     
     so. But when she heard he had got mar- 
     
     ried again she thought she’d better let him 
     
     know the truth. 
     
    

    
     “ It all sounded like a queer story and 
     
     I suppose you couldn’t blame people for 
     
     not believing it too readily. But I’ve al— 
     
     ways felt it was true. Margaret didn’t 
     
     think so, though. She believed that Ron- 
     
     ald Fraser had deceived her, knowing all 
     
     the time that he couldn’t make her his 
     
     lawful wife. She turned against him and 
     
     hated him just as much as she had loved 
     
     him before. 
     
    
   
   
    
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