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His arm about the trunk of a tree, he laughed softly, as his eyes, sweeping the checker-board of autumn's glories, rested at last on the grove of coniferous trees. So that was the haunted grove? That dark, silent, spicy bit of isolated loneliness far below was the spot he had so feared! But he feared it no longer. She had cured him of that. She had said that fear of the supernatural was foolish; and of course she was right. After further endearments between this devoted father and his daughter, Captain Acton closed her cabin door and went on deck. "You have been half-starved in that brig," said Captain Acton, searching his daughter's face, and running his eyes over her dress..
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