Silas Marner
What prevented Dunstan’s absence from being linked with the theft of Silas’s gold?
Silas Marner Ch 10
Silas Marner Ch 10
It occurs to no one to connect the disappearance of the gold and that of Dunstan. Not even his brother suspects him, since he has been known to run off in the past, and the Wildfire affair is taken as ample motivation for him to have done just that.
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