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HOW CLARE WAITED. 103<br />

Thornton's disappearance : the vague ru-<br />

mours would grow into suspicions, and suspi-<br />

cions must rest somew<strong>her</strong>e, and Audley Dale<br />

might find himself in danger <strong>of</strong> losing more<br />

than Miss Lisdale, if he did not take heed.<br />

Sometimes a great wish seized <strong>her</strong> to go<br />

at once to the Fort, and see if it could<br />

tell <strong>her</strong> nothing. Then she trembled and<br />

hesitated. It might hold a tenant too<br />

ghastly even for <strong>her</strong> eyes to look upon, un-<br />

moved ; still, that would hardly have<br />

deterred <strong>her</strong>, only, as she said, it would do<br />

no good, and might do harm. T<strong>her</strong>e was<br />

nothing for <strong>her</strong> but to wait, and sit in that<br />

sick-room, hoping that <strong>her</strong> patient, for<br />

whom, in spite <strong>of</strong> such hope, she was<br />

honestly doing <strong>her</strong> best, would eit<strong>her</strong> linger<br />

on in unconsciousness, till that was dis-<br />

covered in the Fort, which would fix sus-<br />

picion at once on Audley Dale, or die<br />

before he was asked how it was his wife<br />

had been so long absent from <strong>her</strong> home.

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