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140 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

him very favourably ;<br />

" but I thought that<br />

coming from a person in my station, it<br />

might not meet with so much attention as<br />

if you were unacquainted with the writer."<br />

Audley Dale, standing t<strong>her</strong>e, felt as if<br />

a net was being drawn tighter and tighter<br />

round him. People looked strangely,<br />

worse than coldly, upon him. It was all<br />

true—everything was true that the woman<br />

standing t<strong>her</strong>e was saying—and yet he<br />

knew and felt that she was swearing his<br />

life away, and that his innocence was likely<br />

to avail him little with such a foe. The<br />

coroner continued :<br />

—<br />

" Had Mrs. Thornton's disappearance any-<br />

thing to do with Mr. Thornton's illness ?"<br />

" Nothing," in Clare's opinion. " He did<br />

not know w<strong>her</strong>e she had gone, and so<br />

could not have been angry with <strong>her</strong> for<br />

going to the Fort. She supposed he had<br />

been on one <strong>of</strong> his long rounds that after-<br />

noon, and over-tired himself. He was

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