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humiliate
me to the ground, but I fear that it ought to be given to the public, as he
obviously desires!"
"And which do you say!" Geraldine was standing now, and swiftly
whirled around toward Dr. Bigdon.
"I agree with Mr. Gordon--much against my will--but an honest
confession is good for the soul!" he, replied ruefully.
"You infidels!" she exclaimed tumultuously. "You have not one atom
of Christian faith between you! To imagine that you can strike a
bargain with the good God by letting a sick theory of expiation of a
dying, fever-distraught creature besmirch his repute as a man and a
gentleman, make his whole life seem like a whited sepulchre, and bring
his name into odium,--as kind a man as ever lived,--and you know
it!--as honest, and generous, and whole-souled, to be held up to scorn
and humiliation because of a boyish prank forty years ago, that
precipitated a disaster never intended,--bad enough, silly enough, even

wicked enough, but not half so bad and silly and wicked as you, with
your morbid shrinking from moral responsibility, and your ready
contributive defamation of character. Tell me, you men, is this a
testamentary paper, and you think it against the law to destroy it!"
"No, no, not that," said Bigdon.
"No, it is wholly optional," declared Gordon.
"Then, I will settle the question for you once for all, you wobblers!"
She suddenly thrust the paper into the chimney of the lamp on the table
just within the open window, and as it flared up she flung the document
forth, blazing in every fibre, on the bare driveway below the veranda.
"And now you may find, as best you can, some other means of
exorcising the phantom of Bogue Holauba!"

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