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114 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

beneath them, and over the whole <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Fort, but especially the lower portion.<br />

The meeting was held with closed doors,<br />

and the worthy magistrates intended all to<br />

be done secretly ; but when was secresy<br />

ever observed in a country town ? Every<br />

one knew what was on foot as soon as the<br />

labourers moved <strong>of</strong>f with pick-axes and<br />

shovels towards the Fort ; and Deb, to<br />

whom, the next morning, the milkman<br />

brought the fresh news, came rushing up<br />

with it to Clare.<br />

" They ar' goin tew look for the missus I<br />

—they are goin tew look for <strong>her</strong>," she said,<br />

excitedly ; " an', <strong>of</strong> all places in th' world,<br />

under th' stones <strong>of</strong> th' old Fort. Whatever<br />

set them on tew thinkin' o' that ? Of all<br />

unlikely places in the world that s the last<br />

a gay body like <strong>her</strong> would go tew. So<br />

lonesome, and not a soul to speak tew, or<br />

tew see <strong>her</strong>.''<br />

" Lonely places are handy ones at times,"

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