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“SIMPLE BUT HANDSOME, JUST THE SAME. “Listen to me, Sheemie,” she said. So her father had said, whether the matter under discussion was sums and subtractions or how to deal with boys at barn-dances when their hands became overly adventurous. “Is it not a fact that Jake Chambers died once and now stands before us, alive and well? Or do you doubt my st

”Coral Thorin, still with that narrow smile (it barely creased her lips and touched her eyes not at all), dipped them a token curtsey. “Well, I . ”“I have twenty men, and there are p’raps three times that number riding hard to join us. The important thing is that they don’t see us—you don’t think they can, do you?”“Over here? Not likely.