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school. But we want to save her, and we hope that
she confesses. We don’t want to lose one of our
sisters. Comrades, it is time for you to help her.”
The students’ enthusiasm was brought into play
at once. They raised their hands one after another and
strived to be the first to speak.
“What does the decree from the education
commission say?” a male student who got permission
to speak first asked.
“No love affairs in schools,” White Swan
answered calmly.
“Have you violated the decree from the
Education Commission?”
“No, I haven’t,” White Swan said, still calmly.
She didn’t know the fact that the school authority had
known everything we did and cheated me of my
confession as the most convincing evidence.
“What have you done with Soapy?”
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