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Whatever good Cecile's purse of gold might be to her ultimately, at present it was but a source of peril and danger.
Had anyone suspected the child of carrying about so large a treasure, her life even might have been the forfeit. Joe Barnes knew this well, and he was most careful that no hint as to the existence of the purse should pass his lips.