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BEATEY LA YTON'S PROMISE, 173<br />

'' An anonymous letter Milly had a day<br />

or two before the ball, and about which, I<br />

do n't think Audley gave <strong>her</strong> any very<br />

clear explanation. I suppose he could n't<br />

—but please go on. What makes you<br />

think it was not Mrs. Thornton whom they<br />

buried to-day ?"<br />

"The boots. Mrs. Thornton would<br />

have walked barefooted before she would<br />

have put on such clumsy gear ; and tjie<br />

size <strong>of</strong> the hands—Mrs. Thornton's were<br />

miracles <strong>of</strong> smallness. I have seen the<br />

coroner, and pointed out these facts. The<br />

first, which he says a juryman remarked at<br />

the time, Charlotte Clare accounted for, by<br />

asserting that <strong>her</strong> mistress wore such<br />

articles when walking out in bad weat<strong>her</strong>,<br />

or along the coast. I know Charlotte<br />

Clare a little better than he does, and I<br />

don't believe <strong>her</strong>. As to the hands, he<br />

says the effect <strong>of</strong> immersion in water, on a<br />

human body, is to enlarge it ; but no im-

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