MARION FREED FROM BONDAGE
"You won't tell Marion—you won't tell Marion that I killed them—"
"No—never."
Obadiah fell back with a relieved sigh. After a moment he added.
"In a chest in the cabin there is a letter for Marion. It tells her about her mother—and the gold there—is for her—and Neil—"
His eyes closed. A shudder passed through his form.
"Marion—" he breathed. "Marion!"
Nathaniel rose to his feet and ran to the cabin door.
"Marion!" he called.
Blinding tears shut out the vision of the girl from his eyes. He pointed, looking from her, and she, knowing what he meant, sped past him to the old councilor.
In the great low room in which Obadiah Price had spent so many years planning his vengeance Captain Plum waited.
After a time, the girl came back.
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