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172 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

their tete-a-tete. Beatey coiled <strong>her</strong>self up<br />

on the bank, and felt secure, and in anot<strong>her</strong><br />

moment felt, rat<strong>her</strong> than saw—for the night<br />

was misty and dark—that Temple Masters<br />

was close to <strong>her</strong> on the opposite side <strong>of</strong><br />

the wall.<br />

" I have more to tell you than I thought<br />

I should have,"' he said, gravely. " I have<br />

seen the woman whom they discovered in<br />

the Fort, and who was buried this after-<br />

noon, and I am certain that she is not Mrs.<br />

Thornton !"<br />

" Her servants swore that she was their<br />

former mistress," said Beatey, eagerly.<br />

" Would n't they know better than you ?"<br />

" One <strong>of</strong> the servants was too frightened<br />

even to look at the dead body she was<br />

called on to identify ; the ot<strong>her</strong> would<br />

swear anything that would injure Audley<br />

Dale!"<br />

" Then she wrote it !" cried Beatey.<br />

" Wrote what ?"

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