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Miss Civilization by Richard Harding Davis
page 36 of 41 (87%)
you? Isn't she attractive!

REDDY:
We didn't ask for the lady of the house. They ain't always as
sociable as you are.

ALICE:
Well, that's her necklace. You got that at the house on the hill
with the red roof--the house has the red roof, not the hill.
(She recognizes, with an exclamation, a gold locket and chain which
HATCH is about to place in his pocket.)
Oh! That's Mrs. Lowell's locket! How could you!
(She snatches locket from HATCH, and clasps it in both hands. She
rises indignantly.)
How dared you take that!

HATCH:
Put that down!

ALICE:
(wildly and rapidly)
No, I will not. Do you know what that means to that woman? She
cares more for that than for anything in this world. Her husband
used to wear this.
(Points.)
That's a lock of their child's hair. The child's dead, and the
husband's dead, and that's all she has left of either of them. And
you TOOK it, YOU BRUTES!

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