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Out of her sphere - University Library

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WHAT GLARE WAITED FOR, 151<br />

him. Audley Dale let himself be guided<br />

by his first impulse, which bade him<br />

answer in the negative. Why should he<br />

stand up t<strong>her</strong>e and tell his tale for all<br />

those fools to gape and wonder at ? What<br />

could he say, indeed, but what would not<br />

only criminate himself still more, but reflect<br />

upon the woman <strong>of</strong> whose murder he was<br />

accused ? He had gone to the Fort to<br />

meet <strong>her</strong>—he had carried the cravat away<br />

with him. On the whole, would not<br />

silence be the better course for the present?<br />

What could he say that would not make<br />

matters worse ? T<strong>her</strong>efore, he answered<br />

with a little unnecessary contempt for those<br />

he was addressing, that he had nothing<br />

to tell them—he should reserve whatever<br />

explanation he had to give, for a different<br />

tribunal, if required to appear before it.<br />

Upon which the coroner gave him to<br />

understand t<strong>her</strong>e would be no question<br />

but that he would be so required, and, as

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