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136 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

believe it, as I said, to be that <strong>of</strong> my late<br />

mistress, Mrs. Thornton."<br />

As she spoke, she turned involuntarily<br />

from the coroner, towards Audley Dale, so<br />

that she seemed rat<strong>her</strong> to be addressing<br />

him than speaking to that <strong>of</strong>ficer. Every<br />

one present felt that <strong>her</strong> words were meant<br />

more for him than for any one beside. He<br />

felt it himself— felt, too, he knew not why,<br />

that those words had anot<strong>her</strong> and deeper<br />

meaning than that which met the ear. He<br />

turned paler still. It was as if he had<br />

heard Henrietta Thornton's death bell<br />

tolled, but his own knell mingling with<br />

it.<br />

Every one felt, when Clare had concluded,<br />

that t<strong>her</strong>e could be no doubt but that the<br />

dead woman found in the Fort was Mrs.<br />

Thornton ; but why had the witness thought<br />

that Audley Dale was so especially con-<br />

cerned to know the fact ? Clare's examina-<br />

tion went on.

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