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98 OUT OF IIER SPHERE.<br />

envelope <strong>of</strong> the anonymous letter which<br />

had been sent <strong>her</strong>, that the sight <strong>of</strong> Mrs.<br />

Thornton s monogram made <strong>her</strong> misgivings<br />

take a new and more tangible form. If,<br />

after all, the idle stories which had been<br />

spread about, and which had linked Mrs.<br />

Thornton's name so much with Audley<br />

Dale's, should have some foundation in<br />

them ! Why had she gone in that strange<br />

way ?— -just too at the very time when Aud-<br />

ley had been summoned from Wearmouth ?<br />

and why had Audley hesitated and equivo-<br />

cated about that letter ? She had not liked<br />

his manner at the time ; the more she<br />

thought <strong>of</strong> it, the less she liked it now—it<br />

was almost incredible—the whole story<br />

was one that it was so difficult to reconcile<br />

with what she knew <strong>of</strong> these two, and yet<br />

t<strong>her</strong>e were the hard bare facts, whose ugli-<br />

ness it was impossible to explain away—let<br />

Audley do it if he could.<br />

*' And supposing it is all as great a mys-

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