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him go, and Ah Sing made no sign. "If you would give me your daughter" he said earnestly, but at a look from Wu he paused.
"Give you my daughter?" Wu Li Chang said terribly. He rose and crossed to Gregory and stood before him—very near. "I have no daughter," he said gravely, and his meaning was unmistakable, "to give you or any man!"
The pinioned man recoiled with a sob. "Oh! my God!" he cried under his breath. And he knew himself for the murderer of a girl who had given him—all—and a child. And his own soul rose against him, and cursed him, and called him "Cur!"
