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It was a hard thing to say to Tessie, who knew nothing of Ange's love for Charteris, but it was wrung from me in the extremity of my fear and pity for the child.
Tessie naturally demanded an explanation of my words, and then and there I made a clean breast of it, telling her what I had seen and heard, and how I had told her father of my discovery, and the unsatisfactory result of my communication.