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THE
SILENT PARTNER.

BY
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS,

AUTHOR OF “THE GATES AJAR,” “HEDGED IN,” ETC. “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” Bacon.
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