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Out of her sphere - University Library

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CHAPTER IX.<br />

MISS BEATEY LAYTON TAKES THE MANAGE-<br />

IF<br />

MENT OF MATTERS.<br />

Wearmouth had been in a state <strong>of</strong> ex-<br />

citement and perturbation that morn-<br />

ing, it was nothing to the stir and tumult<br />

that pervaded it in the evening. A murder,<br />

however terrible, was in itself not such an<br />

unprecedented event as the fact that any<br />

one in Mr. Audley Dale's position should<br />

be committed to take his trial for the<br />

crime. Every one believed in his guilt<br />

—<br />

that was the most piquante bit <strong>of</strong> the<br />

excitement. They would not have thought<br />

him innocent for anything. In every shop,<br />

in every drawing-room, in every public-

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