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Rained but stopped
late when they went
Chamberlain came brought hose
and told us his mere
tale of the island people 4.50
and the woman who
educated the wild man.
He said a man could
love but once and
told us how he had loved
his first wife. I asked
him if he had not given
up mar[[?]] a ring or
something that he
didn't want to do. He
said it was a locket.
He had put it away
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where no one could get
it. He then told in a
broken voice how he
had dug to the coffin
in his first wife's grave
and was stopped.
We offered him $25 more
but told him what
we had and he wouldn't
take it.
Reds thought she saw
two figures on the [[?]].