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IN THE FORT. 9-<br />

his arm, looked up in his face with a scared,<br />

frightened look, ^' Harold I<br />

have<br />

you come<br />

to take me home ? I '11 go at once, only for<br />

Heaven's sake do n't look like that !"<br />

" Come with me !" was all he said in an-<br />

swer, and he moved towards the top <strong>of</strong> the<br />

stairs, looking hack as he went, to see that<br />

she followed him. She did so, all <strong>her</strong> usual<br />

nerve and self-possession gone, thinking<br />

that he was going to take <strong>her</strong> home, and<br />

hoping that Audley Dale would not come<br />

t<strong>her</strong>e before they left.<br />

" I think he will kill him," she thought,<br />

'^ he looks capable <strong>of</strong> it. What has brought<br />

him <strong>her</strong>e ? How did he know that I had<br />

come ?"<br />

The worn stone stairs were more difficult<br />

to descend than they had been to mount<br />

they were so slippery and broken away,<br />

that t<strong>her</strong>e was danger <strong>of</strong> falling at every<br />

step, and if so, steep and precipitous as the<br />

stairs were, any one who lost his footing<br />

;

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