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ROSEYE'S SECRET
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power—and that power I intended to use and prove at the earliest opportunity.

Still I had to reckon with enemies: cool, clever, cunning persons who would hesitate at nothing in order to nullify my efforts, and wreck my machine and all my hopes.

Ah! If only Roseye, my well-beloved, would reveal to me the truth.

Why did she so persistently refuse?

Why? I wondered why?