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For some reason she just couldn't determine why. But she didn't know him, now, did she? Not the way she evidently knew, say, m'lord. Jared Carter, he said. His extraordinary charitiesobtained him the name of John of alms-deeds.

She'd remembered what she'd said when she'd parted from Dan. She thought about him a lot. nd hair, insinuating itself beneath the peaked hummock of rough-spun blanket draped across one shoulder. Until recently they were hard to even find.