Her Faithful Knight — page 289: what you’re looking at

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Dorothy's Confession. 285 ble of restraining myself. Once already I have tried to kill him, and if the law handed me over to him I should soon become in truth the murderess they call me. If he sees me he will recognize me, and know the trick that has been played upon him and claim me as his wife; and rather than endure that I would plead guilty, he tried, sentenced, and hanged—for the murder of myself!” She was on fire with excitement again, and before he left the house for his night work at the office she had bound him solemnly to secrecy on the subject of her identity, after which the reaction came, and she took leave of him with what looked like cold civility. But before she went so sleep Dorothy, blushing in the darkness, kissed her wedding-ring, and slept with her left hand pillowed under her cheek. In this troubled time the touch of the ring was as that of a friend and soothed her to sleep. , GEOMmIGdOO S (EC)