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made me promise not to tell anyone, especially
you or Matthew, but I guess the secret’s out now.
I told Martha that he bought it, and that was what
gave her the idea to sell her house to him. I
understand that he paid twice what is was worth
to give you something to live on.”

Rachel nodded. It seemed that, once
Camilla had found out that Rachel knew the
secret about Jacob, she had a lot to tell her.
Rachel asked Camilla what she knew of Jacob’s
life for the last 18 years.

“Oh, I don’t know. You’d have to read the
letters for that. But I remember, once when he
was a boy, he was . . .”

She continued on with stories of Jacob in his
youth as if it were yesterday. Rachel began to
fidget. She began to worry that it would be time

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