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the drug-laden atmosphere she had breathed so long. She knelt down by the stripped bed.
“Mother,” she said aloud, “I have kept my promise.”
When she tried to rise, long after, she staggered and fell across the bed, with her hand pressed on her heart. Old Giles Blewett found her there in the morning. There was a smile on her face.
