Her Faithful Knight — page 229: what you’re looking at

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A Widower’s Letter. 225 with me—I repudiate you altogether. I never loved you, you have no claim upon me at all, and I don’t care what becomes of you. I found you out solely through my deep, my passionate and unalterable love for my wife Dorothy—love so intense that wherever she went I had to follow her. Had she lived I would have won her back to me though all the forces of heaven and hell stood between us. But now that she is dead I shall only stop in this neighborhood long enough to follow her to the grave, wherein all my hopes of happiness will be buried with her. From that dark moment you need never hope to see or hear from me again. Darcy DERRICK.” EOMmiIGcdoo “S (S@)