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"Just a stroke of the pen, dear, and myfather will be free" (page 279)FrontispieceFACING PAGEIt was a mere wisp of a girl who confronted him14If only he had dared ... he would have drawnthe dainty head of Leslie Wilkinson down onhis shoulder and would have kissed her thenand there76"We've got a long fight ahead, Leslie—a runningfight, as Colonel Morehead calls it, but I'mready"370